Featuring a 'hoon' around the week's events with Peter Bale; including where next for the Covid strategy post-elimination; why the death of AQ Khan matters; and why energy prices are going nuts
I think we have to re evaluate what we mean by the world ‘elimination’. If we treat it as the having the same meaning as eradication then we are p..g in the wind. If we are to treat it as meaning ‘managing’ then to give that up is, I think, foolhardy. Can you imagine what it would be like? Utter chaos. We have to manage this epidemic. There is no other choice.
US piece but some interesting data re Facebook demographics etc. feels relevant here also https://qz.com/1355827/do-teens-use-facebook-it-depends-on-their-familys-income/
I think we have to re evaluate what we mean by the world ‘elimination’. If we treat it as the having the same meaning as eradication then we are p..g in the wind. If we are to treat it as meaning ‘managing’ then to give that up is, I think, foolhardy. Can you imagine what it would be like? Utter chaos. We have to manage this epidemic. There is no other choice.