One phrase we have heard many times from ministers in recent weeks is that “we are going to have to learn to live with Covid”. They are quite right to make that point. We are not going to eliminate this virus nor can we put life on hold until we have reduced the daily number of deaths to a tiny number.
But there has been a tendency to take this to read that “living with Covid” means the same as “living life exactly as it was lived pre-Covid” – and that, sadly, is not the case. At least, not yet.
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