Lockdown
"Lockdown"! It sounds like a TV quiz show. The contestants have to answer enough questions in two minutes to dodge lockdown. Avoid it and you win a prize - perhaps a holiday in the sun or an electric lawnmower. The studio audience are instructed to clap and you leave the glare of the cameras waving like a Chinese cat in a takeaway. See the shifty looking fellow above - that clown without his red nose. He came into our living room last night at eight o' clock and with a grim face, reading the autocue, declared that Merrie Olde England will be going back into lockdown - but not the quiz show of my imaginings. No - the grim coronavirus lockdown of last March. It's a case of déjà vu. The government's regional tiering arrangements simply have not worked. The coronavirus infection, hospitalisation and death figures have all remained stubbornly high in recent weeks. The situation is depressing but at least this time round the prospect of effective mass vaccinati...
