The ability to create a deadly virus with little expertise is exponential. Soon enough, any country in the world and any university will be able to create smallpox from nothing more than a digital genome, you can already - apparently - download the digital code on the web (or dark web), it's just a case of waiting for the technology to be able to unleash the terror.

Facebook have just done a complete U-turn and announced that it will stop banning claims that Covid-19 is man-made, citing "new" facts - which they will likely be forced to repeat in the future regards other aspects of all things related to Covid - so maybe people will now start having an honest conversation about what we could be dealing with.

Covid-19 is about as benign a pandemic as you could hope for with which to run a dress rehearsal and it's been a complete farce. We're playing a stupid game of hide and seek with it. Masks and washing your hands is about as effective as a city dweller white washing his windows and hiding under a table to survive a nuclear war. Claiming that vaccines are the answer is too early to tell and you're always going to be playing catch up with those. You need to be able to stop these viruses coming into the country in the first place, instantly close borders and stop flights. Lockdown PROPERLY if need be. If we can't do that, we're going to be in very serious trouble.