What if there'd been no vaccine?

We're holding an inquiry because vaccines have given us the luxury of hindsight

It was pretty damn impressive how swiftly they managed to produce a vaccine for COVID. Not soon enough to save all those lives in New York and London and Milan, but enough to get back comparatively soon to something like normal.

Feels a bit comical now to recall how fondly some of us imagined in the midst of that surreal suspended lockdown time that this…