"We don’t seem to care that we have these really high infection rates. It looks like we’re just accepting it now—that this is the price of freedom."

Tim Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London, commenting in the recent New York Times report, “Britons, Unfazed by High Covid Rates, Weigh Their ‘Price of Freedom.’” Spector has been leading a major study of Covid-19 symptoms.