and developing symptoms seems to be much shorter than it was, even for the delta variant, so it is around about five days, and what that means is you get infected, you can be infectious, and there is that maybe 12 hours or so, or a day, where your lateral flow test might be negative, even though you are just cooking the virus and you are about to become infectious, you are going out and about, you perhaps do not have any symptoms or very mild symptoms, you pass it on to somebody else. by the time you have found out you are positive and you potentially tell your contacts, or you tell the contacts, or you tell the contact tracing nhs app, those people who you have infected have already infected other people. so i personally know more people who have tested positive for covid in the last month that the whole of the pandemic put together, and i think probably a lot of your viewers will have a similar experience. and that means, if