‘Should we not at least be free citizens again until such time as there may be a second wave?’

• COULD it be that Covid-19 is a seasonal virus, given that on July 7, according to Worldometer’s Covid-19 data, as trusted and used by the United Kingdom government, the new UK Covid-19 related deaths are down to 155 and the overall total number of cases have stabilised since May 12?

According to Time magazine (June 30), “Nationwide protests haven’t caused a Covid-19 spike” in the US.

There have been no reports of a spike from the hundreds of thousands of Black Lives Matter protesters thronging UK streets since the end of May, nor from the crowded beaches in Bournemouth and Brighton, nor from the Liverpool Premier League win where thousands celebrated shoulder-to-shoulder.

The spikes reported in Leicester are of case increases, which only show how many people have been tested.

So why, in the bid to kick-start the economy, are we, Jo Public, still being kept apart with threats of being “locked up” if we don’t behave “responsibly” (BBC Breakfast News, July 4), and required to use covid passports with all our personal data available to the government to keep us all in line?

Should we not at least be free citizens again until such time as there may be a second wave?

To put things into perspective, according to the Worldometer, a global total of 545,365 people have died with Covid-19 so far this year (July 7), while 5,789,627 people have died of hunger.

Where is the will of our world governments to pull together to end the preventable outrage of poverty and unacceptable hunger?

Perhaps in such a climate of putting human lives before multi-national profit, and fostering healthy environments that would support our having healthy immune systems, there would be no Covid-19.

CLARA WEISS
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