Between how widespread it is, how easily it transmits and how likely it is to seriously mess you up, it's not really low risk. Even if it was low risk, it would

Between how widespread it is, how easily it transmits and how likely it is to seriously mess you up, it's not really low risk. Even if it was low risk, it would still mean that the underlying risk of infectious diseases in our society has gone up. Returning to our previous practices would require our risk tolerance to have gone up, not down. > [We don't do that with the flu.] I do think we've historically been too blasé about the flu. We ought to be treating it more seriously than we do -- a lot of those things you say we don't do with the flu are things we perhaps should be doing. > We also currently have a new autumn booster programme being prepared for the Omicron variant. It's only available for above-50s. We can do better than this.