SIR – Regardless of the rule changes tomorrow, I’ll continue to wear a mask.
The Government’s anti-mask, anti-social-distancing agenda is, in reality, a thinly-veiled policy of herd immunity. It clearly wants to let Covid rip. It is now down to the people of Britain to deny the Government its herd-immunity wish. We should mask up, practise social distancing and generally be cautious to help save human lives from this vicious disease.
Sebastian Monblat
Sutton, Surrey
SIR – The current Covid infection rate is around 40,000-50,000 per day and still increasing (though the figure is probably higher due to many having no symptoms and therefore not contributing to the daily figures).
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SIR – In their interview with Oprah Winfrey, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex expressed concerns regarding their mental health. Did it not cross their minds to consider the mental health of those they were vilifying, two of whom are over 90 years old?
We are led to believe that nobody is more aware than they are when it comes to mental health, but I wonder.
Sheila Hale
SIR – The Duchess of Sussex has a pack of cards stored for use against our monarchy and press. If anyone says they don’t believe her stories, she takes out a card and plays it. Piers Morgan came under fire in just this way.
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SIR – I fear that my cousin, Professor Stephen Powis, national medical director of NHS England (Letters, February 19), is being disingenuous when he implies that NHS cancer treatment has been satisfactory during the pandemic.
The statistics he cites do not reflect the misery that thousands of patients have suffered as a result of their treatments being postponed. I should know. My own treatment for prostate cancer was delayed by six months and wasn’t completed until nine months after diagnosis.
The specialist hospital that provided my care was largely mothballed. Staff later told me they had spent months twiddling their thumbs, as they had not been needed to look after Covid-19 patients. I’m assured that my prognosis will not be affected by the delay – but many people’s will be.
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SIR – Jane Moth (Letters, January 23) is absolutely right about the grief and gloom in the BBC news coverage of Covid. I stopped watching the six o’clock news 10 days ago.
I keep abreast of the news and am aware of the seriousness of the situation, but it has been a release not watching daily close-ups of dying patients and grieving relatives. I feel able to face daily difficulties in better heart, but can still sympathise with those less fortunate.
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