Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
Yes, I hadn't quite appreciated the importance of mood music until Omicron came on the scene and how people's moderation of behaviour meant we were more or less in self imposed lockdown in the run up to Christmas.Some people also end up coming out with crap about 'the scientists were wrong', even though the modelling covers a range of scenarios and is quite clear about what parameters they play with in each scenario. Hence they are not delivering single fixed predictions about what will happen, they are not predictions of the sort that newspaper headlines make it sound like they are! Not least because they do not usually attempt to model changes in peoples behaviours that are caused by mood music etc, they tend to model behavioural changes only as part of scenarios where new formal restrictions come in on certain dates.