Just let me decide how to live my life
IN SIX months’ time, I hope to reach my 90th birthday. Subject to God’s will, plus some common sense from me, I expect to get there and beyond! The Covid restrictions are not going to help anyone and certainly not the economy. The people most at risk are the over-80s, but I believe those of us with sound mental and physical capacity should take responsibility for our own lives. Let the young live their lives — we lived ours. They are much less likely to suffer serious problems from Covid. I don’t want my children and grandchildren to suffer economic hardship now and in the future. And I don’t want elderly people like me to be resented because of the restrictions that are being imposed on everyone else. So let us fit oldies look after ourselves and allow our great country to go forward to a healthy future in every sense.
CLIVE JACOBS, Aldenham, Herts.
THANK heavens for the Daily Mail pointing out that a return to normal life and work is the only sane way to escape the madness of continual lockdowns. The reasonably fit and healthy need to take age-appropriate precautions. Those who are vulnerable to severe illness will need shielding. This form of nationwide self-defence against Covid is not reckless. Ever since the onset of lockdown in March, substantial sectors of the workforce, such as supermarket staff, have remained active without sustaining anything like the casualties implied by the gloom and doom Health Secretary and his professors.
WILFRED ATTENBOROUGH, Lincoln.
I AM single, in my 70s and as fit as a fiddle. So far, I have been compliant with the Government’s diktats to protect others less robust than me. The one high spot in my isolated existence has been meeting up with four friends every Friday. We have scrupulously maintained the 6 ft social distancing rule. Now we are being told these joyful meetings are outlawed. I can mingle with strangers in the supermarket, on a bus or train, but can’t meet my cautious friends in a house. I am considering rebellion.
SHIRLEY MANN, Witham, Essex.