After listening to Dr Mike Yeadon and several others like him, and after being persuaded by there assertions that there’d be no second wave, I’ve become very depressed by the fact that they seem to have been proved wrong.

I was so convinced by their assertions that the increasing numbers of positive tests were largely attributable to the vagaries of PCR that I felt confident that we’d soon be out of the woods and that all would be under control again by Christmas.

But for the rising number of deaths, I could probably still cling on to that hopeful state of mind, but the evidence that a second wave is now very much upon us, has all but snatched away the last vestiges of what little hope remained.

It all looks pretty desperate now, but can anyone offer any hope that people such as Dr Yeadon might still somehow be right?