Everybody dig in, have a go. This is an enormously complex situation that does not submit to facile, one-line solutions. Anyone carrying responsibility for any aspect of this is performing a thankless task nobody in their right mind would want to have to take on. Mistakes and misjudgements are certainly being made, and that is no surprise in the circumstances, but people are working bloody hard to try to guide us through this unprecedented situation as best they can. Of course they should be held to account when they get it wrong, but a word or two of thanks would not also not be out of place.



