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In the 2011 film, a soldier is sent back in time to prevent a terrorist attack on a train.

In the final reel he succeeds, but Jake also realises that witht he attack foiled, there would be no evidence that the attack was stopped by his team, so he sent an e mail to his controller telling of the success, as in her timeline the news was that a bomber had been intercepted and blown up by his own bomb.

Also, you may remember the millenium bug, worries that every computer on the planet, or some of them could stop working when their internal clock reached midnight on New Year's Eve 1999.

That an army of tens of thousands of IT techs worked their asses off for years to ensure that didn't happen is now being used as an excuse for science warnings over nothing.

Vaccines work because it introduces immunity into the community, and over time the virus is defeated. It only works if most of the population is vaccinated or infected. With many viruses where there isn't a risk to life or life-changing side effects, we let it rip. But otherwise vaccines are developed.

That those vaccinated don't develop conditions serious enough to go into hospital or the ICU is now being used by anti-vaxxers as reasons for not getting vaccinated.

This is clearly stupid, but it seems the stupidty has now infected the backbenchers of the Conservative Party who see vaccine mandates and other restrictions not needed because the effects are not so bad.

And on top of that, papers have been trupeting for two days now how Omicron is either 40%, 50% or 70% less severe than Delta, but is more transmissable.

And it is that transmissability that is the problem, because even if fewer people as a precentage suffer serious conditions needing to go into hospital or the ICU, but because more are infected, more people in total get serious conditions and need to go into hospital, thus overwhelming the NHS they claim to want to protect.

It is simple maths, but either through stupidity or by lying, backbenchers demand no more restrictions.

By relying on vaccinations alone, as a species or a country, we run the risk of resistant variations mutating. Vaccines are not a magic wand, but need to be protected and treasured, because if we don't, and a new variant emerges that is resistant, then we will be back at March 2020, with more and more people being subjected to the virus.

There might seem there is no hope, but there is. If we lose hope and give up the fight, more and more people will die.

Sadly, some Conservative MPs and doctors are using the "failure" of the NHS protecting the public as a prerequisite to change the entire health service. So, this is where the politics is going, blaming the NHS, the only part of the last two years to emerge with credit and at having suffered dreadful losses due to infection brought on by a decade of Conservative policies, will now suffer the fate that those who died at Hillsborough: blamed for their own deaths.