Thank you for such a balanced perspective. It's such a difficult area, because there are some people who feel genuinely threatened by unvaccinated people, but I think that the real problem is the idiocy with which people can behave, disregarding all measures and treating those who are observing measures with contempt. Likewise, it goes the other way, and you can be vilely attacked for simply questioning the safety and efficacy of the vaccine. We just need people to be more intelligent and sensitive in general and we would probably be far more effective in keeping the hospitalisations down.

I completely agree that there needs to be a proper weighing up of personal benefit, and we need to keep in mind that we don't know the long term effects. The fact that there has been a higher rate of spontaneous abortion, that Pfizer's warning is that women should neither be pregnant nor planning to become pregnant in the month following vaccination, and that women shouldn't have mammograms in the six months following vaccination, should be warning that something happens in the reproductive organs and breast tissue as a result. It may be temporary - we don't know. And, my feeling is that our adolescents, who, as our scientific advisory committee here in the UK points out, stand to risk at least as much as they stand to benefit from vaccinations, should wait to see the results over time. My tuppence (as we like to say), which many may disagree with, but I don't believe in unnecessary risks, and, as you point out, we can be mindful and observe sensible strategies.