variant, 0micron. the way it was described by the first minister and by the experts, the health experts with her, is that it spreads much more easily. they said it had what they called a high attack rate, and that means essentially if you are in a room with a group of people, 50% of the people in that room will get the disease, if one person, one infectious person is in that room. and that is what lies underneath the advice which came from public el scotland yesterday, and was emphasised by the first minister today, that people should defer their christmas parties. this doesn t have the force of law, it is only advice, but she pointed to a number of cases where it seems there have been super spreader events. a party involving accident & emergency staff in lanarkshire, many scotrail staff in lanarkshire, many scotrail staff off work at the moment, these are the kind of situations that indicate you nicola sturgeon and her medical experts that there is a real