In the UK where Team Expert - guardians of The Science™️ - who before Christmas predicted that there would be 3 000 hospital admissions a day from Omicron unless everyone in the land were chained to their beds until further notice, have had to consume large helpings of humble-pie since (of course) there were hardly any admissions from CoVid of any variety. And no way to hide or spin this.

More bizarrely, because of devolved powers in healthcare to Scotland & Wales, the loonies in charge there went full-on Pol Pot, introducing restrictions just short of lockdown. By contrast in England apart from masks and the usual dire warnings, Christmas & New Year celebrations went ahead as normal. And guess what? England is no worse off whatever crummy data set you want to believe than Scotland or Wales.

But no remission for the Scots & Welsh. Some people just won’t give in no matter the evidence from observation.

That is what makes me reserve my judgement regarding ‘beginning of the end’ - because it is unwise to assume that because I - and our blogmeister - are rational operators, that others are too, particularly the parasites in ‘government’.

And that’s the problem here. None of the CoVid measures were based in logic or reason, or modified by learning from observation, so no logic and reason or learning from observation can reverse them.

Swift (I think): You cannot reason a man out of something he did not reason himself into.