A question worth pondering is how long do people put up with their lot as a result of Covid before things get ugly.

The Dutch are into their third day of rioting in protest over lockdown. Their Prime Minister says if it’s not contained the place is headed for civil war.

Italy is watching their Prime Minister quit because one of the coalition partners is fed up with the countries handling of Covid.

Mix this in. The head of Moderna last week said we’ll be living with Covid forever, thus indicating it’s a flu like virus, and we will need a jab a year –which is fine, but you don’t lock populations down and restrict their movement for flu, so why Covid?

And if Covid is flu like, who makes the call and when that the approach until now can’t last?

And that’s before you get to the many protests we’ve seen already all over the world from people who never really brought into the approach at all in the first place.

And that’s before you get to the federalism issues in places like Australia, the states and to a lesser extent Britain, where state or local authorities can run their own programme and make their own decisions, thus leaving the population to a crap shoot set of rules depending on where you live..

And then you mix in time and the seasons.  I am sure at least part of what we’re watching in Holland this week is driven by a dark wet miserable winter: the human spirit can only take so much for so long.

Hell, our government defends wandering around for exercise in MIQ over a 14 day period. Try being locked down for Christmas, trying having kids at home from school for months, trying seeing your pub closed till July.

There is a lot at play here and obviously it will vary population to population. We, for example are as compliant as any in the world. Probably too much so, hence our government has turned being asleep at the wheel into an art form.

But millions are getting closer to being over it, and Holland might just be the current example of how dangerous and explosive this could get.