am not dismissive of Covid-19 and the health challenges (in a depleted NHS) or economic implications.
However, when I wrote weeks ago about the discrepancy between our reaction to the potential threat of the
new flu and the obvious and proven premature deaths from, for example, air pollution (30k-40k per year in
the UK) I had no idea that things would progress the way they have. I don’t mean the virus but the panic.
Am I still being too cynical in suggesting that our government has now the perfect smokescreen behind
which to hide all the problems that we know will result from Brexit?
What we need to learn from Covid-19 is just how unprepared we are for the next time this happens.
Amanda Baker Edinburgh
Having read yesterday’s editorial on coronavirus (“Johnson’s coronavirus transformation is welcome”), I
feel entitled to ask whether, at age 62, I may be suffering from a “pre-exciting condition”.
It could all be just too much for me.
Rev Peter Sharp High Peak, Derbyshire
Delayed gratification
I can tell Jess Phillips why we need more time to complete the Labour leadership electoral process: some of
us haven’t yet received our ballot papers...
Cole Davis Norwich