I live in Italy. Not a country associated with obeying governments, a country where people naturally interact much more closely and physically than the U.K., where arms length is a long way away, where how you look is of the greatest importance. Yet yesterday I travelled to go to a concert. Most folk in the street wore masks, including the asylum seekers and beggars, everyone wore a mask on the train, (you get thrown off if you don’t), everyone wore a mask at the concert, we had to show our green passes to get into the concert, our hotel and even to buy a coffee this morning. Deaths and cases are a lot lower here than the U.K., despite being months behind the U.K. with vaccines. Fancy that.