the prime minister was using. the point is that the lesson is a clearly obvious - to everyone around the world this pandemic is something l we are going to have to get- used to and we are going to be rolling with it and we will have to change l because sometimes we're going to have our foot - on the pedal and sometimes we will be to take it off. - and a new variant will come up and a particular vaccination - will not deal with it - as effectively as others. it is about governments. learning to balance those competing pressures of health and economy and politics. - i think at the risk is that by sort of allowing - the impression to get - there that somehow monday clears the decks and it's i a freedom from there on, in makes it politically harder- for the government to reimpose some restrictions on the future if that is what was required. i let me just bring in both your direct experiences in your home countries, stephanie and michael. stephanie first, we obviously heard angela merkel say she did not want brits coming to the uk, she wanted them all to go to quarantine and that didn't work and is not happening now in germany either. what is at the situation