Why? Because the idea that this could all happen again is too devastating to comprehend. The UK’s coronavirus death toll is over 41,000; if the virus gets out of control again, many more lives could be lost.

A second wave of coronavirus infections would also disproportionately affect those from BAME backgrounds, as the first wave has already shown. According to Public Health England’s BAME coronavirus report, death rates from Covid-19 in England have been higher among people of black and Asian origin than any other ethnic group; people of Bangladeshi background face a risk of death which is double that seen among white British people.

Then there’s the fact that a return to some of the stricter lockdown restrictions – which might have to be put in place to stop the number of new cases increasing exponentially – would exacerbate the problems already caused during the first, such as a surge in demand for domestic abuse services and the disproportionate psychological and financial impact the pandemic has had on BAME women.

Second wave anxiety: “As new lockdown restrictions are introduced, I’m terrified of what comes next”