This article isn’t wrong “We may be used to it now, but step outside our new normal for a moment. If someone, without telling you why, had informed you last October that within a year, Europe's offices and city centres would stand deserted, its citizens subject to night-time curfews, alcohol bans, travel restrictions and the mandated wearing of face shields; that spending the night with one's non-live-in partner would be punishable by a fine and visiting one's family abroad would be banned - you might assume, horrified, that Kim Jong-Un, armed with more nukes than we previously knew existed, had rolled in and taken over the Western world If that same person told you that, no, this wouldn’t be the result of nuclear war, but a virus which in that year accounted for little more than two per cent of the total global death toll; one that presented some danger to the elderly and infirm but spared most of the population even from mild symptoms ... well. You probably wouldn't believe them” We’ve gone utterly nuts !!! From the Telegraph, a paper I’ve long hated but now begrudgingly respect …see more