Mindless few are hurting the NHS

I AM sure that 80% of us are concerned about our NHS frontliners being under so much pressure for far too many hours in the day, many of them apparently on the verge of exhaustion, and they simply do not deserve that.

We all know who are the people responsible for this situation.

The Government knows, the police know, the NHS front-liners know, and we 80%s know.

It is the other 20% who are refusing to do as they are told.

The rave-ups in flats and houses, the mass gatherings outside and inside, the men who have recently been discovered in a pub bar, the people who refuse to wear masks, the morons who do not “believe” there is a virus at all.

It is all those people who are responsible for spreading this virus, not the 80% of us who are doing as we are told, we are not spreading it. How could we be if we are following all the rules?

Now we hear constant words of concern coming from members of our government regarding the plight of our NHS front-liners and pleading with the population to have respect for them, but 80% of us already have that respect and concern.

And we do not need any member of Government pleading with us to live within the guidelines provided by them for our overall safety, as we are already doing that and have been since last March.

My question is this... Bearing in mind that, according to the Government, it is only a “tiny minority” of the population who are not following the rules, and in any case, why are they not being treated as criminals?

They are the ones responsible for the mess we are in. They are doing their best to wreck our NHS. They are the ones who are wrecking our economy. They are the ones responsible for thousands more people contracting the virus.

They are the ones responsible for thousands more people dying from this virus.

How can what they are doing not be seen as a criminal act?

If the Government is as concerned about the plight of our NHS as it appears to be, then it is time for them to do something meaningful with the louts the police keep catching. Fining them is useless as it has proved to be. Lock them up for goodness sake. Our lives and our economy is surely worth more than pleading with louts.

Let’s just see how “concerned” our Government is. Their efforts so far can be likened to attempting to fight an alligator with a feather duster and it is pathetic to witness such extreme weakness in our Government.

In fact, more than that, it is embarrassing.

Michael Pickering Doveridge

Last week’s snow might have largely missed Ashbourne itself, but some of our surrounding villages got a healthy covering. This picture, by Gordon Stewart, was taken just outside Tissington on Friday.