Professor Glum is making us all sick with worry
Sarah Vine’s column last week resonated with me and many of my friends. We understand the gravity of the coronavirus situation – we are not stupid. Chris Whitty might be a brilliant scientist but he may be a better harbinger of doom. Morale is very important and we are having it eroded on an almost daily basis.
Chris Sharp, Leeds
Prof Whitty’s despair-inducing manner and message have scarcely changed despite the very real prospect of vaccineenabled national recovery.
Wilfred Attenborough, Lincoln
I am not living in fear and neither are my family, but we are taking this pandemic seriously – unlike some.
M. Green, Shropshire
Instead of having the doom and gloom of people like Chris Whitty, we need to be told how many of the people who contracted Covid went on to recover and how many have not had it too badly. All we get are long faces and bad news.
Linda Jackson, West Sussex
Like Sarah, I wake most mornings at 3am and lie there worrying about it all. I am 72 and my husband is 76 and I have never been so afraid of where this country is heading. Not of the virus – we’ll take our chances on that – but the way the Government is instilling fear into us all. B. Trotwood, Carmarthen
We desperately need our leaders and advisers to be truthful but to be hopeful and positive too. Without hope, what have we got?
Caroline Pell, Rugby
There is only so much the public can take of all this depressing information before people start to switch off.
Lynne Birkett, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
The Government knows that most people have a rather limited attention span so it has to repeatedly hit us over the head with an idea for it to stick.
Tim Lawson, Exeter
Chris Whitty threatening that we will all die if we go out is really not helping those of us who live alone. Let us all get on with our lives without this harassment.
C. Gardiner, Bristol
People are still ignoring the rules which are simple to understand, so the only way is to scare them into obeying them.
C. Osborne, Northampton
For Sarah Vine to say that Prof Whitty should shrink from giving the facts and telling us how to deal with them is highly irresponsible.
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WARNING: Sarah Vine in last week’s Mail on Sunday