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SIR – Our well-being has been severely affected by the Covid crisis. The danger now is if we continue to delay our return to normal life, the danger is that the economy will be destroyed in the process. Many livelihoods have already been ruined. It is time for us to live with the virus, and for those who deem it necessary to protect themselves to do so. Tom Berglund London W8 SIR – In the Downing Street briefing on Wednesday, Professor Van-Tam referred to the Covid peak in January as the “third wave”. Later in the briefing we were told we must avoid a third wave later this year. ....
SIR – What a wonderfully human person the Duke of Edinburgh was. In the 1960s, when I was a resident in the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, the doctor’s mess was ill decorated. A doctor suggested that the only way to get it redecorated was to invite royalty to visit. We sent a letter inviting the Duke to dine in the doctor s mess. To our astonishment we received a reply saying that he would be delighted to accept the invitation on the next occasion that he was in Edinburgh. We kept the date secret but word got out during the week of the visit. A host of workmen descended and very rapidly redecorated and transformed the mess. ....
Credit: wpa/getty SIR – The Brexit trade agreement secured by Boris Johnson is not the perfect deal that many of us dreamt of when we voted to leave the EU in 2016. But that was never going to happen – and, while the devil is in the detail, it appears to be much better than I had recently imagined. I predict that our future relationship with the EU will be far more cooperative and mutually beneficial than it has been over the last 40 years. We were always the unwelcome party guest (even though we brought lots of presents) and we knew this, yet we kept returning in the hope that things would change. ....