‘We haven’t learned anything’: Readers despair over UK’s Covid response in 2025

BIG disasters often change the way we see the world.

The Lisbon earthquake in 1755 rocked people’s faith in religion. After the 1918 influenza pandemic, there was an increasing interest in fresh air, better healthy hygiene and living spaces – ideas that influenced architecture and public health policy at the time.

CovidHowever? So far, The public inquiry focused more on WhatsApp messages and political drama than on the biggest lessons. But a lot Independent Readers believe in it were Lessons, but we have not necessarily learned from them.

Before the pandemic, there were fears that people do not face the restrictions – that “behavioral fatigue” is triggered and we would all abandon. This fear led to delays in locking and, in the end, cost tens of thousands of lives.

But this point of view turned out to be false. Faced with a shared threat, most people acted with care and responsibility. The communities have gathered. Many have gone without seeing loved ones, missed work, lost income – all to protect others.

Now readers believe that a large part of this collective effort has disappeared. When we asked for your point of viewYou told us that people no longer have masks on public transport and that patients are back in offices and schools.

The things we have learned – on pure air, the right salary in sickness, the importance of staying at home in case of illness – are forgotten, even if the virus has not disappeared.

Many of you have told us that the return to “normal” is anything but normal. You are frustrated by the lack of public messaging, the sidelining of the protections and the risks in progress, in particular from long.

Here is what you had to say:

Covid looks more like polio than influenza

Unfortunately, Covid is still there, always causing bad health and a handicap. Doing nothing is a false economy: in terms of impact, Covid looks more like polio than in flu – and we do not ignore polio. We do not need extreme measures, but good ventilation, FFP masks (especially in health care), HEPA filters in closed spaces such as classrooms, neighborhoods, clinics and offices would all make a difference and are not difficult.

The inversion of the elimination of the vaccination of the NHS of most groups and guaranteeing access to vaccines and antivirals – the standard in other countries that are better – is essential.

Multiple headdresses, even if light, increase the risks of complications, including heart, and damage the immune system, which makes other infections more difficult to shake up.

Long Cavid is now the most common disease of American children, and the United Kingdom is on the same trajectory, for the same reason. In children, the covid can cause metabolic dysfunction and lead to diabetes. All this is avoidable.

Pot

We know what to do – we don’t do it

We haven’t learned anything. We need pure air in public spaces (especially schools and health environments); Good sickness remuneration; to stop the ridiculous pressure to send children infectious to school; Better public information on the advantages of masks and ventilation; Use of high quality masks if necessary (certainly for people with symptoms, and regularly in health environments and for travel); and vaccines available to all those who wish one. Affordable tests should also be widely available.

We know what to do to reduce the spread of Covid – we just don’t do it.

Kittencute

We haven’t learned anything

No, we haven’t learned anything from the cocovated pandemic. Everything was done by panic. He did not demonstrate at all, the money was wasted and the gourmet companies simulated the prices to make obscene profits. No medical authority had the slightest idea of ​​how to manage it. This should never happen again – separating families, causing misery and pure panic.

We have already had pandemics and we will do it again. The lessons must be drawn from this last fiasco and manipulated completely differently. People will catch him independently of what they do; It cannot be avoided. It is time for a total redress of these so-called medical experts.

Pasthecastle

Long Cavid is the main danger

The main danger with Covid is to become long. Science says that no one is immune to suffering, and it is probably a chronic lifetime condition that could end your ability to work. 3.2 million English know that this is what they suffer, and the number increases each year.

The only defense we really have against Covid now, because most vaccines have been selected, is the wearing of an FFP2 / 3 respirator, which is extremely effective in stopping infection. These masks also stop hay fever and most other infections. People who started wearing them have not been sick for years.

Paul

Cavid could be eradicated – but there is no will

COVVI -19 could be eradicated fairly easily in this country with ventilation, investments in an appropriate HEPA infrastructure in all public buildings, a functional vaccination program and – especially all – those who can mask to wear FFP2 or FFP3 respirators when Indoors anywhere.

If the government could be disturbed to protect our public health, it should lock the country – for a few weeks. With all this in place, he would disappear. There is no will or momentum among our leaders to protect us from this incredibly disabling disease.

Bourdon

Sooner or later, vicious tension will emerge

Covid is there to stay. There is an increasing consensus, it has probably escaped a laboratory, and it will continue a rapid change – removing vulnerable and the elderly – saving a little money, somewhat offset by the cost of the long.

I mask in stores but I rarely see someone else doing it. Sooner or later, vicious tension will emerge, and we will be back to square one.

Galileo666

Learn countries like Japan

We must take into account the conclusions of other countries before us – for example Japan on the spread of the virus – and improve the ventilation of buildings, trains and buses … Even waiting rooms of doctors in winter!

Jennifer

Covid is an embarrassing fact

Covid is an embarrassing fact that governments and the right press prefer to delete. Unfortunately, he is always very important, and he always kills the old, the very young and those with a compromised immune system. It also leaves a trace of devastation in the shape of long -term damage caused by a long cocovan.

And all of this concerns people – there is also the impact on the economy. The drugs that would have enabled immunodepromis to live a normal life (hundreds of thousands of shields) were refused by the British government to reduce costs. Drugs like Paxlovid – literally an economy of life for any immunocompromised person unlucky sufficiently to contract a contraction – have been made almost impossible to access.

The treatment of people immunocompeted by this government and those previous is shameful. And to top it all, there are still a lot of clowns around who somehow feels threatened by anyone who takes the reasonable precaution to wear a mask, and to feel the need to make fun or to display direct assault.

Davidm

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