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Picking winners

Pardon me for being gloomy, but how the hell are we going to get out of this Covid-19 mess? Can we even do that?

Don’t talk to me about vaccines being the magic answer, because they are not. The Government has ordered a first consignment; enough doses for 750,000 people that could come in the first quarter of next year.

That will leave 4.35 million of us still waiting for inoculation. You can guarantee border and isolation-facility workers will be the first to get a jab, followed by healthcare workers and then maybe the

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