Nothing grownup about debate

Sir, – It is a mere two or three weeks since Ms Sturgeon announced her ‘grown-up conversation’ to discuss relaxing lockdown.

Yet when it came to the bit, she announced there would be no relaxation imminently.

Tentative relaxation in England is dismissed as irresponsible, with the reopening of garden centres a bizarre sign of dangerous selfindulgence.

It is fine for people to take their daily exercise

on a golf course, but dangerous for people to play golf.

It may be that people cannot be trusted to observe social distancing without scrutiny from the nanny state, but that doesn’t suggest that there is any kind of grown-up conversation in progress.

Jill Stephenson. Glenlockhart Valley, Edinburgh.

easing lockdown has been derided.

It seemed to me a very appropriate slogan.

If one is going to cross a busy road with traffic coming both ways, at varying speeds and in varying numbers and sizes, then one has to be alert and weigh up one’s options. Just as we are asked to do when we are considering the easing of lockdown.

Mona Clark. 9 Millbay Terrace, Dundee.

reasoning behind a change in the Covid -19 slogan from “stay at home “to “stay alert “has much to do with those in the Tory Party and big business lobbyists being fed up with the lockdown and the effects this is having on profits, dividends and the value of their investments.

By asking people to return to the workplace they are encouraging the majority of those who are accessing the furlough support to start working again. Those remaining at home are likely to be professionals more likely or not still in receipt of their salaries.