Since March last year, the government and all of our politicians and their advisers and the press have been telling us to be afraid of this deadly virus that’s highly infectious.

But why wasn’t professor Neil Ferguson, the man whose forecasts plunged us into lockdown afraid of this deadly virus or afraid of catching it or passing it on, when he was having illicit sex with his married lover at the height of the pandemic?

Why wasn’t Dominic Cummings afraid of this deadly virus, when he drove from London to Durham with his family at the height of the pandemic?

Why wasn’t Government minister Matt Hancock afraid of this deadly virus, or catching it or transmitting it, when he kissed and groped his secretary?

And why wasn’t anyone who attended the Downing Street party, as they danced and drank and hugged and heaven knows what else, afraid of this deadly virus, or catching it or passing it on, last Christmas, when the whole country was locked down and being told that they could only touch their loved ones cautiously?

When they’ve now made people so afraid, to the point that many people are scared to leave their homes and have contact with other people, even their loved ones, why haven’t our politicians and the people in charge been afraid too?

Why?

Chris McGlade