cancelling office parties family parties. i think there is a precautionary principle that the public understand about public health. you know, if in doubt we don t know how bad omicron really will be, because it will take quite a few weeks before you really get mass hospitalisations, we re not there yet they re more cautious. i think there s a lot of trouble with the nhs i ve been covering the nhs for more decades than i d like to count and it has never been in such a fragile state. and it entered this crisis this covid crisis having had a decade of its most stringent funding, since it was founded in 19118. it had 100,000 medical vacancies and then, after brexit, it lost a lot of staff. people went. it s part of the idiocy of brexit was to get rid of people we really needed working here. and there s now a waiting list of 6 million people. well, back in 2010, when this