NHS staff bring a patient into the Royal London Hospital
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SIR – The idea that we should expect a repetition of curbs on normal life next winter, with sections of the economy shut down anew, needs to be firmly scotched now.
We will be at the other side of the “game-changing” vaccination campaign. Covid will be another of the endemic respiratory viruses we have to contend with.
The public-health authorities seem to have got it into their heads that it is their job to abolish mortality at whatever cost.
We should heed the lessons of this pandemic, practising rigorous hand hygiene and not spluttering all over colleagues and fellow passengers by struggling into work when we are ill.