Vaccines are key to returning to normal

IT is encouraging to see that some of your correspondents (Alan Spencer, Robert Readman, Helen Capel, for example) appreciate that the Government has been handed an almost impossible challenge, and it is easy to criticise its actions in hindsight.

Not all the Government’s decisions have been perfect, but it tends to be forgotten that it is trying to balance virus-related health outcomes with longer-term physical and mental health issues, the damage to education, and short and long-term economic harm caused by drastic restrictions.

We should not forget that without a strong economy, healthcare is at risk; it is not an either/or situation.

This is overlaid by medical advice which mostly tends to the supercautious without acknowledging that there are risks in life.

Fortunately, the rapid development of vaccines may save the day and allow life to return to much more like normal sooner rather than later.

John Eddison Bath