It is clear that in the UK at least not everyone is taking all reasonable measures. Go to the shops around the town where I live and there is around 90% of the people wearing masks and wearing them properly rather than with their nose hanging out. Go to a town just 5 miles away and it is closer to 75%. The town where I work it is around 50% of people in shops wearing a mask - but that is getting better. Oddly, the infection rates are inversely proportional to the mask wearing rate. That is what can be seen easily and I suspect that that is a higher figure than other aspects of keeping the virus numbers low because it is visible. Certainly social distancing appears to be optional for many people.

As regards people working well I have had our factory open for the whole time with reduced staff initially but with everyone back in since July - occasional days when I have furloughed people but generally everyone in. The difference between now and this time last year is that we insist on face coverings if you are coming onto the site - we meet people wearing our masks. As far as I know I am the only one to have had Covid and I got that from my wife back in March. The staff are really good about keeping away from each other and from visitors / customers.

It really is not hard to follow the rules - obviously we have some cretins in the UK that think that driving 250 miles home with a sick wife and having Covid yourself is acceptable - the sort of cretin that then goes for a drive as an eye test.... I would love to know the views of his insurance company as to whether his insurance would have been valid for such an exercise.

With the arrival of the vaccine we can see a light that we think is the end of the tunnel - so some people are dropping their guard at precisely the wrong time, it has been a long journey lets not screw it up at the end, but people are.

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You will have to do without pocket handkerchiefs, and a great many other things, before we reach our journey's end, Bilbo Baggins. You were born to the rolling hills and little rivers of the Shire, but home is now behind you. The world is ahead.