The article below was originally published on Linked In on the 30th October, see Original Linked In Article Introduction If you are fearful about Covid it suggests you haven’t been given reliable information, so hopefully this will help to reduce your fear. Covid is endemic in the UK and will remain so for the foreseeable future. It is unrealistic to consider eradicating it, let alone significantly controlling Covid in the UK. The country would have to shut down and remain isolated for at least 6 months and then stay like this. This is New Zealand’s approach and also fate. At some stage, New Zealand will have to come out of near total isolation and, if a vaccine is only short-lived, they will eventually “suffer” the virus at some stage in the future. So, politicians and scientists saying we must control the virus are saying this because they want to manage patient numbers needing NHS treatment (& by implication deaths, although their policies have actually caused more total de...