Joe Biden will be the 46th President of the US and one of his first actions after winning the election was to lay out plans for his COVID Taskforce. The political and the medical are inseparable. A presidential election is polarising but, increasingly, the calculus of COVID-19 is conducted in base two. Everything is 0 or 1. We argue about the economy or lives; GP practices are portrayed as open or closed; the Great Barrington Declaration is set against the John Snow Memorandum; and we agonise over the false dichotomy of lockdown versus freedom. It’s all …