30th August 2020

In cities around the world, citizens have been protesting against the ‘draconian’ anti-Covid measures enforced upon them, whilst the rest of us have criticised their actions as being selfish. And yet the oldies amongst us remember a time when children who played out in the dirt all day built up an immense resistance in their white corpuscles to fight all known germs. In fact, mothers used to host chicken pox parties so that toddlers could catch it and build such resistance early. With the ‘flu, it mutates regularly. The only way to resist is to catch it and go to bed so our wondrous bodies can build specific immunity. Today, as we stay home hiding from Covid, we all think the virus will soon be gone. But hiding from an invading ‘army’ never encourages it to go away. It will stay there waiting for us to come out of hiding, ready to attack again. So, what’s the answer? Either global, regular vaccines for everyone for the rest of your life or follow Sweden’s normal-life model where, although more people have caught Covid, importantly, fewer citizens per capita have died from it.