Today I watched TV news for one hour, and wrote down a list of key pandemic words and phrases. With such a blitzkrieg of conflicting information is it any wonder that people are distressed, depressed or have stopped listening.

Whack a mole
Moonshot
Sudacreme
Test and Trace
Crush the curve
Corona surge
Bottleneck
Areas of intervention
Support bubbles
Shielding
Circuit breaker
Night time curfew
Hospitality shutdown
Keep checking the regulations
Rule of six
Back to school
Back to work
Demand outstrips capacity of world class system
Processing backlog
Trend analysis distortion
Tighter restrictions
Open up the economy
Quarantine list
Non essential travel
Informal informing
R number
Warning signal
ICU
Exponential growth
Work from home
Don’t visit other people’s houses
Premier League football to restart with socially distanced crowds
No mingling
Swabs to your nose and throat
Infection survey
Wake up call
All in it together
Universities are open
Critical point
Nothing is inevitable
Protocols
Sticky blood
Tipping point
Reducing backlog
Turnaround time slippage
Self isolation the key
National Lockdown
Sobering week
Community transmission
Lighthouse lab system
Novel disease
Community responsibility
Do the right thing
Plan for the worst
Work for the best
Only people can make a difference
Wear a face covering
No engagement of four governments
Vacancy at heart of the UK government
Cytokine storm
Covid toes
Royal mint not making new coins
Furlough ending
New Year’s Eve fireworks cancelled
Stringent national lock-down
Accelerated uptick
Hoping for a drop-off in infection
The last line of defence
Christmas is coming, who knows where we go from here on in.
Me? I’m going to be self isolated most of the time.
Stay safe, as Arthur Lee said “The news today will be the movies of tomorrow.”

Harry Rogers in the yellow room, September 18th, 2020.