How many virus deaths are acceptable to MP opposing lockdown? – Yorkshire Post Letters

THE number of deaths in the UK as a result of Covid-19 are now over a 1,000 a day, NHS hospitals are being overwhelmed with seriously ill patients – many of whom will die – and the R number for transmission is now between 1 and 1.4, meaning that the growth can be exponential.

The virus, and the new more virulent version of it, is getting out of control. In spite of these alarming statistics and against all the advice of the Government’s own medical experts, Shipley MP Philip Davies voted against the latest national lockdown.

This shows a complete disregard for the health and lives of his constituents. The first lockdown was successful in reducing both the number of cases and deaths. Nobody likes being in lockdown but it is a price worth paying to save more lives.

Does Mr Davies agree with his wife, Esther McVey, that we “should decide on a tolerable level of deaths”? If so, perhaps he’d like to tell us what that tolerable level is.

From: Martin Fletcher, Flanders Court, Thorpe Hesley.

I AGREE with everything your correspondent Paul Sherwood (The Yorkshire Post, January 8) said about hospitality hypocrites.

Unfortunately the rest of us are lumped in with them and may catch Covid as well because of it. I have a disabled wife who relies on me for everything. I cannot afford to catch Covid and have her taken to a home because of these rotten people.

Blame the Government? No I blame the people in the street who could not care less.

From: Steve Wilson, Bradford.

WHEN I first saw your piece in November re WANdisco’s excellent laptops for kids initiative, I emailed Coun Imran Khan, deputy leader and education portfolio holder at Bradford Council, to suggest this was worthy of replicating in Bradford.

No reply came back so I emailed again, coinciding with another TYP story of a similar scheme in Leeds. You’ve guessed it – no reply. Day by day, we go backwards here and it is not hard to understand why. Bradford deserves so much better.

From: Malcolm Smith, Scarcroft.

I ALWAYS read Hilary Andrews’s sensible snippets with interest, but she surpasses herself with her latest suggestion to use TV programmes for children’s remote teaching,

Surely, in this day and age, it is inconceivable that any child in the UK does not have access to a TV. In 1962, I finally received my BA after many years of home learning, using the Open University TV programmes.

In those days they were usually at unsocial hours, like 3am, without repeats and no access to home recording. The Open University channels are still being broadcast so surely it is not beyond the wit of man to extend these to home learning for children during sensible hours.

From: Terry Palmer, Barnsley.

I DON’T very often agree with anything Tony Blair says but his ideas on Covid vaccinations seem sensible. He suggests using all the closed down schools as vaccination clinics. We could go further and use larger health centres along with community buildings.

From: Michael Goodwin, Harrogate.

TOM Richmond falls into the classic error, so frequently and not always maliciously repeated in the media, of accusing a Minister of “managing” his department (The Yorkshire Post, January 9). I can do no better than remind you of the magisterial response of the legendary Sir Humphrey: “No Minister, you set the policy, I run the department.”

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