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Letters: People in the street who don't want lockdown to end must lead a thin kind of existence


8 July 2021 • 12:02am
Bangladeshi people sit waiting for free food provided by Dhaka Metropolitan Police during the hard lockdown
Credit: MONIRUL ALAM/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
SIR – Television reporters constantly interview members of the public who claim that they don’t want lockdown to end. Where do they find these people?
If their lives have not been blighted by the lockdowns of the last 16 months, I can only assume that they don’t work or run a business; they don’t go shopping; they never eat out; they don’t have school-age children or students in their family; they don’t know anyone in hospital or a care home; they don’t have health problems or ever need to see a GP; they never go on holiday; they never go to the theatre, a cinema or to a concert; they don’t support a charity; they neither attend nor support nor try to organise a local club or organisation; they don’t go to public talks or meetings; they don’t have or want any social contact; ....

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