He said: "If you feel uncomfortable about going out in other public spaces, well, you can choose to stay home.

"You can choose to wear a mask, you can choose many things to protect your own health. But they're your choices and we have to be careful about imposing our choices on others."

Better late than never with this inarguably correct message.

Anyone who wants the 1st and 2nd vaccination shot can get it. The 3rd vaccination shot (booster) is also becoming available and it’s reasonable to expect the 4th vaccination shot will be available next year.

Ultimately there will be as many vaccination shots as people need to feel safe and no one’s going to stop you wearing a mask or a double mask or going where you don’t want to go.

Once science and the experts proved that everyone can catch this now increasingly mild virus from anyone else, vaccinated or otherwise, then the economic and social shutdown became a fools errand for the irrationally fearful.