Do you agree with plain-speaking Maureen?

AGAIN, a member of the public, Maureen Eames, 83, from Barnsley, has spoken for the majority. When will ministers and scientific experts let the people of this country decide their own risks? I just want to enjoy my life my way and not be told what to do and what not to do.

M. RIDES, Stourbridge, W. Mids. I APPLAUD this feisty Yorkshire woman for challenging the diktats of those who want to confine pensioners to their homes ‘for their own safety’. How dare they!

JENNY BAILEY, Stroud, Glos. WHAT chance do we have sandwiched between idiot students and the likes of Maureen Eames? I really don’t mind if they put their health at risk, but I do object to them taking me with them. It’s stupid not to see the point of not overloading the NHS. I’m afraid we have created a culture of self-seeking individuals.

PHIL TROTMAN, Wick, Glos. I’M INCREASINGLY frustrated by those who criticise the Government over its handling of the Covid pandemic using the benefit of hindsight. Outspoken Maureen really takes the biscuit by saying she doesn’t give a sod and will ignore guidance. Thankfully, people like her are in a minority. Some might want to call it good old Yorkshire grit but I view her comments as selfish, arrogant and ignorant. I do give a sod for our country and its future and for those in the NHS who are working tirelessly.

ROB PAGE, northampton. MAUREEN EAMES sums up the feelings of millions of us who are not heartless, as Matt Hancock would have it, because we do not accept the validity, logic, necessity or sense of restrictions. We know that any lost life is tragic, but death is inevitable for us all. We have to learn to live with the virus.

ANNE PASSMAN, Wembury, Devon. MAUREEN doesn’t speak for me, nor for the country. She’s entitled not to give a sod but I’m equally entitled to do the opposite.