In the pantheon of tiresome debates, mask-wearing has to be up there with pineapple on pizza. But the old argument is back.
The beastliness of this winter’s superflu is, according to NHS chiefs, “unprecedented". There were nearly three times as many flu patients in London hospitals last week, compared with the same time last year. This flu has all those distinctly Covid-y symptoms: fever, headaches, exhaustion and the famous dry cough.
