Myopic Plan B

SIR – Why are we still trying to fight Covid with self-harming measures instead of accepting that it will always be with us and always be mutating?

Have no lessons been learnt in the past 21 months?

Paul Blundell Daventry, Northamptonshire

SIR – Before the hard evidence is in on how dangerous the omicron variant really is, the Government has initiated Plan B, the timing coinciding with a declaration from Sage that up to 1,000 people a week could be hospitalised with the variant. What is this based on?

Plan B is going to affect people’s Christmas, along with their mental and financial wellbeing. We need to know exactly how this decision was reached. Nearly two years since the pandemic began, politicians’ control over our lives has decreased not one bit.

We were told that the vaccine would put us on the road back to normality. Now we have the vaccine – but not our freedoms. How much longer are politicians going to be allowed to get away with their empty promises?

Lesley Peters Lamberhurst, Kent

SIR – I always get the impression that, when fresh restrictions are announced, the real reason is not to protect the public but to protect the NHS – which is not fit for purpose Julie Ralph

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire

SIR – I had my booster on November 3, yet on December 6 I received a text from the NHS saying that its records showed that I hadn’t had one.

I was advised to ring 119. Upon doing so I was given the usual automated list of options, and chose to speak to an operator. I was told that all operators were busy – then cut off. How many other people’s records are incorrect?

Mark Rennie Newcastle upon Tyne