In the days when I used to live in Suffolk but travelled to The Lakes a couple of times a month I did a lot of motorway driving. I quickly learnt that sticking to the speed limit was far more relaxing - and presumably safer - than trying to do the journey quickly. And of course going slower than 70 if dark/foggy/wet/very busy. So many speeding drivers were braking hard so often in front of me - particularly when they saw - or thought they saw - a police vehicle.

The response to Covid 19 measures is similar - so many comments on social media about how to get away with breaking the rules - false names/contact details in pubs, pretending you are in separate groups rather than together, less than 2 metre distancing, pretending you have a valid reason for not masking, childish risk assessments - it should be the other way around - how can we be as safe as possible - and most safety measures are free.

Cases going up, hospital admissions going up, no-time-limit deaths going up - presumably the Government will wait until the pressure on NHS beds becomes headline news again before taking more appropriate measures. Winter will be fun. Herd immunity is obviously still the aim. But how many do we lose achieving it?

As to the R number - anything above 1 is too high. Even 1 just keeps us where we are.