Knackered. Wesselly said in BMJ podcast and I am paraphrasing here:
If someone gets knocked down by a car, we don't need to know the licence plate number to help rehabilitate him.
And then went on to say we won't be testing people to find out what virus they had way back when - because it doesn't matter. Or he said it before the licence plate nonsense.
The point being, he is intentionally ignoring the fact that the virus in question is a retrovirus, which does not hit and run, but as a retrovirolgist said, hits and hides.
The guy is priceless. I mean, the average GP wouldn't have a clue. To them a virus is a virus. With slightly different names. Effecting different bodily systems. With varying levels of success. The only retrovirus they know of is HIV. But doubtless they wouldn't actually know it is a retrovirus.