Editor

Nikky Young points out (Letters, 10 September) that according to the World Health Organisation, the death rate due to coronavirus is less than one per cent, and seems to suggest that we should therefore not give up our “sociable, expressive and tactile” lifestyles.

The point is also made that only six per cent of Covid deaths are due solely to the virus, but this is then extended to state that the other 94 per cent died “with the disease, not from it”.

In my opinion this is a dangerous doctrine.

Firstly, the fact that the disease causes a low rate of deaths where the affected have no other condition does not mean that the poor people who die “with it” would not have lived for many years were it not for Covid.

Secondly, what effect does the pandemic have on demand for hospital beds - in particular, in urgent treatment wards?

Are the hospitals expected to turn away sufferers sent by their GPs when their lungs start to fail?

And what will happen to all those who do not recover quickly, but have health problems for many weeks or months after contracting the disease?

As a man of 82, having only recently come out of shielding, and admittedly missing the lifestyle that Nikky Young thinks we should continue, I can only echo the statement of a friend - “I’m not ready to go yet!” - and so will continue with the precautions advised by our medical experts.

John Davis Isfryn Llanfarian

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