Twelve months ago, after being cosseted for so long, I was staunchly in favour of opening our borders and learning to live with Covid, given the impressively high vaccine uptake and the comparatively mild variant that was sweeping the world.
Omicron’s steady march across the country was rapid but manageable – and we rolled with the punches. We have unquestionably learnt to live with this virus. It does not command the fear factor of old, largely relegated to nagging nuisance status.
