have literally the best coverage of general immunity possibly in the world through our vaccination programme. it has been a tremendous success. if we do the booster programme right, there is less reason to be fearful. we need to be at a point where we take proportionate and balanced decisions with regards to our public health. i do fear we are of any nep braille state where that not happening. and we are going to get variants of this virus, that may or may not be more or less serious over coming years, possibly for ever. we cannotjust, you know, make these kneejerk reactions on the basis of something that may or may not happen. we get new variants of flu most years before covid came along, some of