Back at the start of the pandemic, if you tested positive for COVID - or even if you were a contact - you were looking at two weeks of isolation. 

These days, that's been downgraded to a week, and contacts are generally free to go about their normal life. 

But while COVID is still undeniably a health risk, having masses of people undergoing mandatory isolation takes its own toll. 

So should compulsory isolation be shortened or even scrapped altogether?

Also on today's show:

• Are vaccination requirements still useful? 

• Moderna sues Pfizer/BioNTech

• Didn't I see Norman out and about without a mask on the other day?