My son went back to daycare a couple of weeks ago so now is as good a time as any to take stock and look back over the last 4 months. It started with that moment on the 17th of March when, flanked by his chief medical and scientific advisers, Boris Johnson stood at that plinth with his hand on his head, looking for all the world like he was saying God help us all. Until that point, the UK had been fairly flippant about coronavirus and the dangers. Herd immunity was the first of several new words or phrases that would enter the common vernacular. I woke up to a new WhatsApp group for work accompanied by an opening message that included something like “…following what has happened overnight…” My first reaction was “what the hell has happened overnight?” given that every time the BBC News notification sounded on someones phone it was more bad news. My second reaction was to type a message into this new work chat informing my colleagues that instructions for my role of paying staff were i