Ron Davies (Letters, May 7) thinks we will come through this catastrophe by using a stiff upper lip, and lists a number of previous disasters to illustrate his point.
The difference this time is that the government has deliberately inflicted this massive act of self-harm that is the lockdown, with no evidence it is actually effective or has saved a single life.
Using NHS data, the chances of anyone over 65 contracting Covid-19 and dying from it are less than one in 200. Much less if you are healthy.
It is the over-80s, those with the lowest life expectancy who are by far the most likely to be Covid-19 victims.
Yet, in a bizarre inversion of logic, that pattern has persuaded the Government — which insists it is following the science — to paralyse the entire country.
The consequential deaths that will result from this lunacy over the long term (missed cancer diagnoses, cancelled operations, unemployment and poverty, mental health, suicides, alcoholism, domestic violence) will far exceed Covid-19 deaths.
Our children will be paying for a generation.
We are heading for austerity the likes of which we have never seen.
It’s time to end this madness and allow everyone to go about their lives and work, if they still have any, and those who are vulnerable can continue to protect themselves by staying indoors if they wish.
Emma Telford
Hereford
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