The Field

Going the social distance

WELL, as the world death toll for COVID-19 surges past 100,000 (I am writing this in early April), it makes my comments in last month’s column – “this all looks like a massive overreaction and at some stage normality will resume” – appear somewhat agly.

Like, I suspect, most of you, I have lost some very special friends to this horrible virus. And when that loss touches you personally you think micro, not macro. My doctor pal from Swindon, however, reminded me that in 2018, 1.5 million people, of whom 200,000

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