The corona virus has had many unintended and unexpected consequences, with the real damage being not so much the medical deaths but the political ones. That is not to diminish the tragedy of the many people who have genuinely died from the disease around the world (as opposed to from a raft of other and frequently deadlier ‘co-morbidities’), but the reality remains that for most the disease is no worse than the flu and the risks of dying from it no greater than being involved in a car or plane crash.