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SIR – “The young face life-altering carnage,” writes Sherelle Jacobs (Comment, March 4). I started paying income tax in 1968, and until 2015 was helping the country to repay its First World War debt. I did not complain that I had to contribute to the cost of a war fought decades before I was born. My generation also had to pay off Second World War debt. That those now alive have to expect that the cost of fighting Covid to fall on our shoulders, spread over the years ahead, is natural, fair and sensible. Ralph Godley Lincoln SIR – The financial consequences of the pandemic seem to be similar to about 10 years of a Labour government. ....