Remaking our country
WE HAVE RIGHTLY BECOME concerned, if not obsessed, with matters of public health. We have become familiar with statistics, as we listened to the 1pm Covid data and understood that it was not just the daily score that we needed to understand but the trend – that the shape of data curves might reveal more than simple numbers in measuring our success in stemming the bug’s advance. We have learned to compare numbers of infected against those cured and are wise to the critical importance of the number of tests undertaken in assessing a country’s infection rate.
More recently, we have begun to focus on other figures, those that measure the injury to our economy and the wellbeing of those whose livelihoods have been obliterated in the drastic measures undertaken to cleanse us of the virus.
