Jabs and jab-nots

When you don’t know where you’re going, say the sanctimonious, any road will get you there. They have a point. But in the increasing clamour for the Government to devise “a road map out of Covid”, the sanctimonious overlook the fact that we do know where we don’t want to go, and for now, that’s all we can realistically chart for.

The known unknowns are bad enough: whether all the vaccines protect against all the variants, whether children are becoming more susceptible and whether future variants will trump the vaccines we have.

The perversities various bureaucracies are layering on to these uncertainties make planning not