Boris has coped well with virus and Brexit

WELL, our first year in lockdown is being lightened and one would hope that people are sensible and realise this lifting of restrictions is a test for everyone.

We won’t be back to normal, maybe never as we knew it, but behave sensibly and we may have a better chance of surviving any more viruses that come our way.

In my opinion, had we still been in the EU our situation could have been much worse.

Brussels would have been in charge of the distribution... I’ll say no more on that subject.

Of course, mistakes were made by all the countries affected, I liken it to taking your A-levels at school: you reach 18, you go to sit your exam and the paper you have been given has questions on it that you have had no tuition at all for.

This virus was a unknown quantity as far as the western world was concerned.

Some of the top scientists were scratching their heads wondering where to go next for a answer – if they were perplexed by it all how do people think Boris Johnson should have known better?

For me, he has done his best. I don’t think there is anyone in government who could have done better, at the same time going ahead with Brexit, he carried out the mandate the people in this country gave him and a good job, too, as we have seen how Brussels has not coped as well with the virus as we have.

I am in my mid-80s. I went through as a child the last war which was dreadful, shortages of food, shortages of things needed for the home, everything on ration, queueing for things like sweeping brushes, shovels, buckets, bedding, furniture.

Fresh fruit in the winter was nonexistent and, of course, the bombs dropping on you... okay, this pandemic was not like that, but it was the unknown enemy, there were too many borders to close, most of our food comes from abroad so planes had to come in and planes have personnel on board, where do you start to close borders?

Let us just be thankful that we have a government that was quick off the mark and ordered millions of doses of the vaccine. We were kept up to date by TV and radio as to the state of play.

So please take care, folks, you don’t want it on your conscience that your actions have caused someone’s death or severe illness.

Just remember how it has been the last 12 months. I for one don’t want to have my freedom curtailed yet again.

Don’t be silly, just be safe and enjoy your sense of freedom once again.

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