The vulnerable still require our sacrifice
‘I’ve news for you,’ says Craig. ‘People get sick and nobody lives for ever [MetroTalk, Thu].’ I don’t believe anybody is ignorant of the fact. We are all well aware of it – and, yes, a large number of people can get Covid with little or no symptoms.
But isn’t that exactly the point? Those people can be spreading the virus without realising it and infecting many, many others – some of whom may go on to die or suffer serious long-term effects.
From stories we read and first-hand accounts, this virus can be extremely nasty and is easily transmissible.
As we have seen a couple of times last year and already this, the NHS has come very close to being overwhelmed and I truly believe that lockdown has prevented that from happening – something questioned by another of Metro’s readers yesterday, Peter from Leeds.
Staying at home where possible and wearing masks when out for only essential reasons is the only way to keep this under control.
I’m all in favour of easing lockdown once rates of infection, hospital admissions and deaths are under control and show a continued downward trend. We all want to see family and friends but how would you feel if you killed one of them? Nick, Hertfordshire
The MetroTalk page continues to bring dismay. Why not think of others before making pronouncements? Karen (MetroTalk, Wed) says it’s simple – stay at home.
I’m a 63-year-old woman, so no state pension. I can’t work from home and I can’t drive so I travel on the bus to work four days a week.
I’m in remission from cancer and have an elderly father I need to visit as, at 93 years old, he can’t get out.
I do maintain the ‘hands, space, face’ rules but whether I think lockdowns are a good idea or not (for the record, I don’t), and no matter how scared
I am for myself or others, staying home all day has never been a choice I have had the luxury of making.
There must be millions in my position or worse. So why berate us from your comfortable homes if you are yourself able to work from home or have a good pension, and have no elderly dependants to look after? Stay at home? No! KA Shakespeare, Birmingham
I totally agree with Craig – this is a virus with a 99 per cent survival rate. When are people going to wake up and see that the economic damage it’s causing this country is disgusting? My
friends in the US say this country is a laughing stock due to the way we have gone about things.
I have so many friends who are in danger of losing their homes because of this. Their mental health is suffering and they are contemplating suicide. We need to get back to normal ASAP.
Ian, Whitechapel
I see the gullible Tory apologists are coming out of the shadows in MetroTalk now this incompetent government has proved the law of averages and got something right after absolute, abject failure.
It seems dumbed-down Britain just accepts ineffectual leadership as the norm now.
Alan Noon, Banstead
Every day we are faced with government-sponsored advertisements asking us to stay at home and to only go out if it’s essential.
When visiting medical and other facilities, we are usually asked to attend alone, yet almost every day we see pictures of Boris Johnson approaching people in vaccination centres across the country, bumping elbows and the like for what are basically photo opportunities.
Are these essential journeys, Prime Minister?
Tim Lamport, South Croydon