Exit from the COVID-19 emergency measures is getting closer. Exit will be fractious. Some of us will want the disease risk eliminated; others will prefer mitigation measures. The politics is about to get more difficult.
The faultline of the different attitudes to exit will be cultural: between those who believe that people are vulnerable and that dangers must be controlled, and those who believe that people are resilient and risks can be mitigated but accepted.
The culture of fear of risk began to gather momentum in the 1980s.
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