As I write this, and after more than two months of rumblings, the World Health Organisation (#WHO) has just categorised the #COVID19 disease caused by the novel coronavirus a Pandemic. Nearly 1500 people have already died in northern Italy. This threat is gravely real. So what does that mean for national leadership now? It's clear that washing hands cannot hold transmission back, but are some leaders washing their hands of responsibility too? Herd immunity now seems a dangero