You may be familiar with the saying about how people make plans and God laughs. How often over the past 21 months have we seen plans, strategies and projections blow up in the face of officials amid our changing fortunes with coronavirus?
Recently, we have seen waning immunity, but also waning public tolerance of restrictions and rules, as well as the waning ability of the public health service to cope.
Something of a perfect storm perhaps, and a portent of things to come? It has been a tumultuous week, with huge uncertainty as to what will happen between now and Christmas - and beyond.
Some of the projections are eye-watering - potentially 12,000 cases a day at the peak in December. The more hopeful situation is 1,000 cases in hospital and