Precisely how can we keep our distance while needing to shop for food?

sir – I’m eager to follow the Prime Minister’s guidance and keep two metres away from others. Tell me how this can be done in a supermarket.

Pamela R Goldsack

Banstead, Surrey

sir – Now that bars and nightclubs have closed, thousands of capable, experienced doormen have no job.

They are skilled at handling badly behaved and anti-social customers, so could they not be employed by supermarkets to keep the panicbuying hordes at bay to allow controlled access for health workers, police and other frontline staff, and separately the old and vulnerable?

Nick Farmer

Leicester

sir – The virtual looting of shops will not stop until the Government brings in rationing of essential food and heavy fines and prison sentences for black marketeers.

David Thompson

Capel St Mary, Suffolk sir – To demonise householders emptying the supermarkets is to ignore what the Government is instructing. My family is part of the 2.2 million told to self-isolate. We have to provision for four adults for three months without leaving the house.

We are not in the 8 per cent of the population who buy their food online. Doing so now is impossible for new customers.

It is mathematically clear that supermarkets require at least double their stock in order to meet the demand created by government edict.

Simon Henson

Witney, Oxfordshire

sir – I stock up. You panic-buy. He is a looter.

Chris Ebeling

Ware, Hertfordshire

sir – We were repatriated to Heathrow on Thursday March 18 from MS Braemar in Cuba.

There were no checks on passengers on disembarking the ship, on boarding the plane, or on arrival at Heathrow. We were bussed to Manchester airport, another three-and-a-half-hour journey, in close contact with fellow coughing passengers, and then allowed to travel home with the advice that we did not need to self-isolate.

Social distancing was to be followed but many passengers on the Braemar seemed not to think this applied to them.

No wonder the virus is spreading, when 600 passengers simply got off a ship with five confirmed cases.

Dr John Davies

Morpeth, Northumberland

sir – If the Queen and I are not at home, she could be walking the dogs or enjoying a ride in Windsor Great Park (which I trust hasn’t closed).

I could be walking my dog over the Yorkshire Moors, with no telephone reception for sure.

I am 73, and walking in Yorkshire is still self-isolating if you go off the grid.

Bridget Garvin

Preston-under-scar, North Yorkshire