Government has difficult enough task dealing with pandemic without naysayers - Yorkshire Post Letters

I WOULD like to take this opportunity to clarify the position of the Opposition parties, TV journalists, and anyone else not in the Government with regard to the Covid-19 outbreak.

- The outbreak is entirely the fault of the Conservative government. Bearing in mind the lead-time for creating a vaccine, they should have started working on one in 2017 so it would be ready for 2020.

- PPE should also have been ordered and stockpiled in 2017.

- The lockdown should have been more vigorously applied in order to suppress the contagion, but only to those who normally stay indoors anyway. Everyone else should be free to do whatever they like, whenever they like and with whomsoever they like.

- If the Government did anything right, it should have been done sooner – if they did anything wrong, it should never ever be forgotten.

- All TV reporters must adopt a facial expression reminiscent of a haemorrhoids sufferer during an acute attack, and ask every question at least five times, increasing in volume each time.

- The police should have been granted much tougher laws to enforce social distancing, but banned from using them.

- As children rarely catch the virus, they should still be able to stay at home for as long as they like.

- As all schools will struggle for the foreseeable future, exams should take place at the normal time but all children taking exams, and even those unable to do so, should all receive the top grade in their subjects.

- All gatherings fuelled by indignation should be exempt from social distancing laws, as it is obvious that the righteous can’t catch anything.

- All actions by the Scottish government must be identical to those of the English government, but be enacted one week later, to allow time for sneering.

I hope this helps your readers to understand the sometimes difficult positions that the aforementioned bodies adopt.

From: Peter Hyde, Driffield.

PEOPLE ask what has gone wrong with our society when louts have raves and abuse police to the extent that they, the police, have to flee.

The blame lies at the doors of the do-gooders and tree-huggers who have successfully canvassed to take away any form of discipline. Parents are not allowed to give a child a little slap for wilful disobedience. I am against abusing children but a tap on the wrist or a spell in the naughty chair never harmed any child.

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James Mitchinson

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