Learn from experience

HOW daft can you get?

Wales’s First Minister, Mark Drakeford, has decided that Wales must go into a “Fire-break; circuit-breaker; lockdown”, (is there any wonder people are confused) to reduce the number of people getting infected with coronavirus.

Hindsight is a gift most of us do not possess, however, experience is a reward we should all prosper and learn from, particularly those who are supposed to lead us during difficult times. However, he, was one of the few politicians that saw the benefits of wearing a mask when it could have helped with Covid numbers; did not rigorously enforce Covid regulations, particularly tourists returning to Cardiff airport, which the government owns, from Covid hotspots and use lockdown principles in areas where outbreaks, particularly food processing factories, were raising concern, months ago.

He now proposes that we have a nationwide lockdown (fire-break; circuit-breaker) in order to reduce Covid numbers and ease the considerable burden the NHS is going through.

Personally I believe that this will do nothing except reduce numbers for a while, although exempting the most vulnerable, over 60s, from gathering in numbers (to celebrate Remembrance day), seems ridiculous, if not

insane. And if he does not implement strict quarantine enforcement following contact by the NHS test and trace service (currently less than 80% are isolating), vigorously, then we might as well all stock up on pasta and toilet rolls because we are in for a very long haul.

Maes Mawr Road, Crynant