More rules needed or just compliance?

The government’s chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, says the current lockdown measures are enough. Sure, so long as the government doesn’t mind the tens of thousands of people a day who are still catching the coronavirus or the hundreds – as many as 1,500 – who are still dying from it every day.

Joe, Lewisham

The Covid restrictions are clear enough and they don’t need to be stricter. We all need to realise how serious this is and do the right thing.

As many as 1,500 deaths a day and we seem to be accepting that is OK. If one Brit died in a plane crash in Asia, it used to be headline news – then along comes Covid, setting new fatality records every day and we don’t seem to care any more.

Even if you don’t care about yourself, please think about others – your kids and grandkids, maybe – and stay at home if you can.

Steve Maloney, Merseyside

The biggest concern with Covid-19 is the lack of treatment in the early stages. You can’t contact your doctor if you believe you have symptoms and are told not to go to hospital.

Talking to carers in care homes, they almost all say the same thing – the elderly were not treated, doctors wouldn’t attend, no oxygen was offered. The elderly were just left to die. The message is save the NHS but shouldn’t they be saving us?

Early treatment for chest infections should be given to prevent hospitalisation but you can’t get a GP unless you want a flu jab – then they will fall over themselves to earn the extra money.

Ring in sick and the phone call takes 10 minutes, and you’re left with the impression that under no circumstance should you see a doctor.

David, Chester

My daughter is returning to work after recovering from Covid. She’s an intensive care nurse in London. She’s caring, compassionate and resilient. She works hard, often in difficult circumstances, to give her patients the best care possible.

I was horrified to find her extremely distressed one morning this week. This was because of all those deniers and conspiracy theorists – those morons who deny the existence or danger of Covid, and ignore the advice of the medical experts. She cried over the accusations and criticism levelled against the NHS.

Take a moment to think what your ignorance is doing. You’re depriving our children of their education and people of their livelihoods, and also harming the economic recovery of our country and the survival of our NHS. In my daughter’s own words: ‘We are doing our best.’ Are you?

Deirdre, Sunderland

I wonder if it is worth buying a 2021 diary? Lockdown, lockdown, lockdown… Keith George, Shepherd’s Bush