She says a doctor then told her it was too late for an abortion, and when her husband found out she was pregnant he abandoned her and the children, leaving them to sleep rough, eating leftovers from rubbish bins and begging in the street.

"She was ready to speak and explain how vital thinking about it around the table was, before it's too late," said Helen.

“Amongst the things that keep me up at night, mirror bacteria are not that high,” Hand said, nevertheless echoing Kay’s sentiment that now, before the technology to produce them exists, is precisely the right time to consider how best to regulate this tricky, “backwards,” hypothetical opponent that could be hard for our immune systems to sense and fight before it’s too late.

"We're disappointed by our government, frankly put, because this help has come too late."

That’s when you put people at risk because you’re asking them to leave and it may be too late to leave whereas if they stay and defend, they’re prepared and we make sure they’ve got themselves garden hoses, buckets, water supply, their own personal protection.