Easy to criticise with hindsight

What a great letters page last week; some good points well made, with Colin Bullen taking centre stage.

I do think the wider media could focus on the current situation.

We are in a pandemic, those with the benefit of hindsight constantly criticise when it’s far more important to follow the rules, get vaccinated when invited and carry on as best we can.

There is no point whatever in whinging or crying ‘should have done this’.

Paul Burnell

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