Sigh. Here we go again.

England is to be locked down from midnight on Wednesday. Probably.

Two days after Scotland did so via a press release from the First Minister, England will join it and Wales. But for two days we can talk about it.

Schools which on Sunday the Prime Minister described as safe for children to return to classes in were described 36 hours later as "vecotrs of infection", the science did not change so much in that time, in fact, I would go far as to say the science said the same Sunday, in fact the same it said on December 22nd, three weeks ago, when SAGE reccommended such a lockdown.

Instead, we had losening of the restrictions for Christmas, people travelled, met indoors, exchanged gifts and germs.

This week the effect of that will start to show in figures, as it was 57,000 new infections were recorded yesterday, but our experience says that that number was probably 50% higher. Meaning that the country is more than halfway to reaching the "reasonable worse case scenario" of 100,000 cases a week, but well ahead of schedule.

Good that we are world beaters at something.

And at the same press conference, Johnson set another target by which we can measure his ineptitude: he wants 13.4 million in the top for groups of most at risk people to be vaccinated by the middle of February.

6 weeks.

13,000,000 people.

2,000,000 plus vaccinations per week, every week.

We are currently just reaching 300,000, but not sure as the Department for ealth, probably due to the shitshow such facts revealed about testing back in spring, won't tell us. But I think I am not the only one to be thinking it is a case of when, not if, it becomes clear the Government have screwed up vaccinations like it has just about everything else.

With the right leadership and planning, the target can be met, but such a plan for vaccinations should already have been created, people trained to deliver the jabs, how to store the life limited temperature controlled vaccines so that the maximum number of people were treated and the minimum of stock wasted.