Come on now, kick your brain back into gear. On a scale of 1 to 10 how surprised actually are you that those amongst the world's current crop of politicians are telling you something that's a total load of whogivesacrap? - minus 5?

Celebrating and roaring back to life are for pandemics ending, not for getting dollars flowing back into politicians' pockets by pretending pandemics are ending. No wonder you're feeling flat - I think most of us are. I certainly am.

The pandemic could have been at an end by now, of course (autumn 2021 was the firm prediction made early 2020 assuming a modicum of sensible leadership) but the politicians, aided by the greed-mongers and the conspiracy theorists, have kept it going and it's far from over yet.

Just keep on two-plying it forward and hang on in there.