Lockdown: Boris Johnson is an ‘incompetent disgrace’ – Yorkshire Post Letters

THE track record of Boris Johnson and his government in tackling the pandemic has been appalling. We are now stuck with a four-week national lockdown that, given sharper action taken earlier, might have been unnecessary now.

England could have locked down in late February or early March (all the signs were there) but lockdown was delayed until March 23, almost certainly resulting in 20,000 more deaths than would have been the case if the same action had been taken three weeks earlier.

The Government has sought to balance the needs of industry and commerce on the one hand, and public health on the other. But there is no trade off – no “middle way”.

In late September the SAGE advisers recommended five courses of action. In an attempt to keep the economy going, and placate Tory backbench MPs, the Cabinet chose to enact just one of the five.

If all five had been pursued immediately, and with vigour, we would have been in a far better place than we are now.

Increasingly the public are twigging – this Government is an incompetent disgrace.

From: Hilary Andrews, Nursery Lane, Leeds.

ANOTHER lockdown with schools, colleges and universities allowed to stay open.

Already the bleats have started about children not being able to have lessons online if schools have to close because they don’t have access to the internet. Many children do, and those who don’t should be regarded as vulnerable and attend school, along with those of key workers and others, assessed as needing continuous education. Teachers should start planning online lessons now as further measures to stop the spread of the virus are on the cards.

From: Phyllis Capstick, Hellifield.

THE scientists are ruining just about everything. They are ruining people’s lives and their livelihoods, without it affecting their financial situation in any way whatsoever.

They haven’t the sense they were born with. They have had it all educated out of them.

It isn’t the “ordinary” working population who pay their taxes who have ruined this planet, it is those who think that they know everything there is to know about everything. Nature included.

All they are experts at is making a fortune for themselves, whilst ruining everything else for others.

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