As the dread continues 20 Jul 2021 / 19:04 H. IT is back to the numbers game. There are whispers, there are murmurs and there are also sighs of exasperation looking at the numbers multiplying irately. To add to our woes, we had experts predicting that the numbers are likely to go as high as 20,000 with up to 200 daily deaths. It is scary and gloomy, and as of now the future looks like a tangle, with both ends missing. It as if you are locked up in a dark room with the keys thrown away. In the midst of this, I have had the invaluable opportunity of visiting several vaccination centres set up independently or at hospitals and all I can say is that the frontliners are our saviours, without whom I may not be writing this and you may not be reading it.