Coronavirus: The beginning of a solution to the virus crisis

In our lifetime, we have had to get used to a bewildering array of acronyms. Especially in this digital age. LOL and ROFL among them. Now, enter a new one. Stand by for TTI. Unlike the social media shorthand, I can translate that one with ease: it means Test, Trace, Isolate. We will all come to know about TTI only too well. I suspect we may come to loathe it, even although today it appears to offer the beginnings of a solution to the coronavirus crisis. To be entirely fair to the first minister, she made no attempt to sugar the pill when introducing us to TTI. Firstly, she explained that it was very far from a panacea.