Cautious progress

no doubt most people in Scotland are optimistic about the SnP’s road map out of lockdown, but the experience of those on the isle of Man should make us cautious.

there, on January 29, after no unexplained Covid cases for 20 days, the Chief Minister Howard Quayle announced that life there would be able to return to ‘near normality’.

Masks and social distancing were dropped and pubs reopened. Since February 16, 26 cases have emerged.

GEOFF MOORE, Alness, Sutherland.

NICOLA Sturgeon is ‘exercising caution’ when lifting restrictions – by the end of april, only six people from two households might be able to meet, we still won’t be able to travel to other council areas and hospitality premises will not be able to sell alcohol, and must close by 6pm.

So does it make any sense to have an election on May 6? it will be bringing people together at polling stations and involve many people gathering votes, counting votes and gathering in results venues.

if this isn’t going to spread Covid, i don’t know what will.

EILEEN DUNN, Clarkston, Renfrewshire.

SURPRISE, surprise, the First Minister is taking a more cautious, calculated route out of lockdown than they are in england.

is it because she cares more for the population than the Prime Minister? if only that were the case.

nicola Sturgeon wants to be seen to be more caring and the only one with a proper handle on how we get out of this. Which would be admirable were it not for the fact she and her government are completely incompetent in everything they do.

Miss Sturgeon is obviously unwilling to let us return to a norm where she won’t have daily party political briefings courtesy of the BBC.

A. WRIGHT, Brechin, Angus.