Nature is full of variations, including COVID – we’ve had the UK, South African, Brazil and Indian variants which we are now calling by greek letters – alpha, beta, gamma, delta, to prevent prejudice.
Lockdowns have varied across the world in their severity. In some countries people can’t go further than 100m from their houses or exercise at all. As countries come out the other side of their infection curves restrictions are reducing, as in New Zealand. However, the USA has not yet got on top of COVID, not surprising given their variable approaches. But maybe they haven’t all swallowed bleach yet…