Boomers are already dreaming of escape to the post-Covid sun | Barbara Ellen

Millennials, meanwhile, will continue to struggle as they to wait for their liberating jabs

The wrong kind" of older, or middle-aged, people are supposed to be receiving the Covid vaccine by the end of March. Not the truly elderly, the vulnerable shielders, but the other lot - taking us to the 32m total who are fiftysomething and above. All those boomers/generation Xers, unleashed back on to streets and into shops, waving their Covid-secure passes, perhaps to book themselves some well-earned YOLO hols.

Meanwhile, younger generations may feel left behind in more ways than one. And there's the looming problem: the vaccine is the great liberator, but it rather depends what you're getting liberated into, especially if you've no money or prospects. Could it give youth yet another reason to resent their elders for their perceived easier ride?