There were so many fires to put out this week, yet never did it feel quite so much like no one was holding the hose.

Instead, the gushing and unrelenting surge of new cases, new statistics, new targets and timetables, whiplash-inducing changes of policy position and rhetoric, curled and whipped back on itself, drenching us in a sense of apparent helplessness about extinguishing or even controlling the virus, but failed to hose down increasing despair and anger in the public that the powers-that-be have things under control.