Coronavirus and how Brexit navel-gazing left us ill-prepared for pandemic

Boris Johnson is leading the country's response to the coronavirus crisis.

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THERE are so many questions, and no easy answers, as to how best to manage the coronavirus crisis. There are two things that perhaps offer the most prospect of relative success.

The first comes from the WHO – test, test, test! Rather belatedly, the Government now seems to realise this has to be a priority. The second, I painfully suggest, is more difficult – learn, learn, learn from the experiences of many other countries.

Panic buying has left he elderly disadvantaged over coronavirus and self-isolation.

There are lessons from China, South Korea, Germany and Singapore, for instance, that we fail to learn at our peril. For the past four years we have been absorbed in the navel-gazing delusions of national sovereignty, control and Brexit. We must quickly learn to learn from the world.

From: Duncan Morgan, Nidderdale.

I WRITE in response to John Eoin Douglas’s letter (The Yorkshire Post, March 18) in which he bemoans the Government’s use of metric units in its coronavirus advice.

Considering it is over half a century since metrication in the UK, it is astonishing Mr Douglas does not know that one metre equals approximately three feet.

For him to use this petty reason to suggest the Government “cares little for the health and welfare of its older citizens” shows appalling ingratitude and obtuseness.

The extreme measures announced by the Government, requiring the compliance and sacrifice of the nation, are being put in place with the primary intention of protecting the country’s older and more vulnerable citizens, of which I assume Mr Douglas is one.

From: Ralph Lennard, Leeds.

I HEAR from the Prime Minister and Chancellor about the support for businesses and workers, which I support 100 per cent.

However what about pensioners who have worked all their lives, saved for a pension and now find this severely depleted? Not a mention of this anywhere. In the last two weeks, mine has gone down 20 per cent. No offers of help for us.

From: Brian Darvell, Molescroft, Beverley.

BERNARD Ingham tries to invoke the spirit of Churchill in an effort to fight coronavirus on the beaches (The Yorkshire Post, March 18). Unfortunately we have a leader with Churchillian ambition but the leadership of the Grand Old Duke of York.