We are not alone

Why do us Brits seem to think we are alone in this Covid crisis/chaos?

The entire world is struggling to cope.

Italy has overtaken UK with current deaths. Germany in serious lockdown, USA in chaos, Holland and Belgium are both even worse.

Our friends in France tell us it is ‘all closed 8pm until 6am the following day’. Try that for size in the UK.

Yes we know the so-called ‘hospitality sector’ is struggling, but so are the A&E wards of this nation’s NHS.

Try that for size, all the educated morons who cannot see the wood for the trees.

Get it into your thick all-too-often-educated heads that close contact of any sort, anywhere increases risk.

I recall our so-called

‘experts’ telling us kids don’t get it – they do – close contact is personified in the classrooms.

Ditto teenagers. The word on the street is that city students have fuelled the current Pompey increases.

Why? Because they’re packed into high-rise blocks and out pubbing.

Boris is not perfect, we all know he is a frontman – a bit of a chancer, a bit of a lad – but hopefully surrounded by colleagues much smarter. And his stance on Brexit might just get us a decent deal – whatever that is!

The socialist alternative (can’t think of his name), a faceless, humourless robot, is hardly a role model for charisma, hope, enthusiasm and above all leadership.

May and Corbyn never encapsulated any of this either but hope must spring eternal that Brexit will (at last) be concluded and the unenviable task of beating Covid, enhanced by the Pfizer vaccine jab, and the UK can be free of not just this evil germ but ‘experts’ too.

Jon Cole

Blount Road, Portsmouth