This is London Calling.

London Calling.

We agreed that we should keep the data from now on under constant review, keep following it hour by hour.

And unfortunately I must say to people we will have to reserve the

possibility of taking further action to protect the public and to protect public health, to protect our NHS. Welcome to London Calling with me James Daddingport and my very good friend Mr Toby

young. Tobes as you can probably hear I've I've still got a cold in my in my throat voice whatever

so so tell me the symptoms james how do you know it's a cold oh no it could be there's a very fine line.

Is there?

Is there?

Well tell me the fine line.

Yeah, I've definitely had this nasty bug that's going around and I tell you what I would like to maintain the

tradition that that we used to have in the old days whereby you picked up these bugs now and again and you went to bed and you obviously didn't go out because

you were feeling like crap and you didn't have to close down the economy and destroy people's jobs and implement a new world order on the basis of it.

Is that unreasonable?

You know, I think that's, I think that's reasonable. It seems like, I mean, you know, I don't think we can say conclusively

but it seems like a fairly common or garden winter respiratory virus

which we would in normal times classify as a cold

and perhaps not even a particularly bad cold.

Someone described it to me in an email today or in an email to the Daily Skeptic as

Nature's Mass Vaccination Program. So you know, you get nature's mass vaccination program.

So you know, you get a very mild version of quite a nasty virus and henceforth you're immune.

But, yeah, I've had a cold too, but not a particularly bad one and not as bad as the bad cold I had earlier this year.

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