Vaccine wars are under way, with the EU threatening to withhold the Pfizer Vaccine manufactured in Belgium, unless we give them some of the Atrazenica product, made here in the UK. In each new Press Conference, our government quotes the magnificent number of people vaccinated (and it is magnificent) and publishes the planned time-scale for vaccinating the next cohorts, beginning in late February or early March.

They seem to have forgotten completely to factor into their timetable the millions of second doses required by the elderly and vulnerable, which would delay the remaining cohorts by over a month.

I think that, after boasting about its success, the government can’t bear the thought of admitting to the world the reduction in numbers second doses would entail, and it is my suspicion – and fear – that the second doses may never be given. Or, that at twelve weeks , the current time-scale, there may be a shortage of Pfizer Vaccine in this country – one of the concerns raised by the British Medical Association in their recent letter to Matt Hancock.

As far as I can discover, Quebec seems to be the only place to have altered the Pfizer regime in the way we have. I do acknowledge the need to vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as possible but, unused to and desperately anxious about the lack of control over what is done to my body, I have been looking to see whether other people are as concerned and are protesting in any way that might persuade the government to take notice.

I have already mentioned the campaign by Labour Peer, Joan Bakewell and I have now discovered another, instigated by Dr. Michael Markiewicz, a leading consultant Paediatrician, who is also trying to crowdfund a crack legal team on a Just Giving page.

One cheering thing about having been vaccinated, (Do, PLEASE ,send me your list of “reasons to be cheerful”), is that I’m assuming the redoubtable Dr. Fauci’s insistence that “double masking” is now required against the new Covid strains won’t be necessary post- vaccination, even if one’s second mask does have a fetching penguin colony on it. I have also stopped disinfecting the post (“The Writer” is not happy about that ) and am even wondering whether to stop sanitising incoming shopping (Will be pondering that one for a while).