SO, HAS the government made the right decision by saying that the time has come for us all to "live with Covid?"

Well, prior to the arrival of the virus hundreds of thousands of people passed away in the UK every year and, of course, continue to do so.

FOR example 615,000 folk passed away in 2019 - a daily average of nearly 1,700 - but the vast majority of the population never gave the possibility of their deaths a second thought from one week to the next.

For example, they did not go through life worrying about being struck down with a heart attack or a stroke anytime soon; their minds were not concerned on a daily basis about whether they would be informed that they had a terminal cancer when they next visited their GP.

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Everyone, on the whole, simply got on with living their lives in whatever way they thought best. If they got a stinking cold, or the flu, then they stayed at home until their symptoms abated, knowing that was the best course of action to take, both for their own benefit and for

others who they might pass it onto; it was called, 'using their common sense' which is, of course, what the authorities are now calling for when it comes to the virus.

Unfortunately when Covid-19 arrived everything changed, virtually overnight.

Facts, such as one in every 108 of us in this country pass away every year and that no-one is immortal, were replaced by government rules and regulations that had just one message: "Covid could kill you", totally ignoring another fact, namely that so do hundreds of other illnesses and diseases and in far greater numbers than this virus ever has.

So, should we now "live with the virus" in the same way as we live with everything else that can end our lives?

I think so but it would be interesting to hear the opinions of other Argus readers.

Eric Waters

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