We should listen to ‘glass half full’ experts and shoo away the Covid bogeyman

As we enter the seventh month of the biggest experiment on human indoctrination since the Second World War, your 1 September editorial headline (“Danger rising of fresh wave”) and the front page declaration from the First Minister (“Second lockdown looms”) shows it really is time we faced up to some harsh facts.

This cannot go on for much longer.

The more I hear what would once have been called middle and upper middle class people talk about the present situation, the more it becomes obvious that people are now sick to the back teeth of this ongoing domination of our daily lives.

Jim Duffy’s 28 August article, in a way not intended, inadvertently summed it up.

Face masks not being worn, social distancing is not being adhered to – his wish subconsciously to remonstrate with non-conformists resonates, as I too see masks and ridiculous human avoidance and want to scream and remove masks – subconsciously.

As each day passes, and with it hope that we may be nearing the end, doom is ladled on with gusto.

What constitutes a second wave? Is it the rising number of positive tests? Is it the number of deaths?

As was stated by many respected scientists in March and April, the projection was that we would peak and then C ovid would hang around, possibly destroying itself, and deaths would drop to no more than seasonal levels of flu and other such viruses.

What all this proves is that it is still, as the FM says, out there, like the bogeyman she and other media outlets would have us believe, but it is not killing us.

As we now load the fear into the very generation that is least at risk, the children, the day will soon come when people will say, enough is enough.

I wonder daily about the scientists who do not sit in darkened rooms, thinking up the next horror headline, who are in fact positive about what is unravelling before our eyes, and ask myself who is right?

Oh that we might listen to the advice of the glass half full argument, rather than the discredited number crunchers of SAGE.

Heaven forbid, but we may have by now been back to normal – not the new version peddled by the harbingers of doom, but one of happiness, fearlessness and a positivity to knuckle down and get society and the economy back on track.

DAVID MILLAR West High Street, Lauder