As citizens become more fearful of coronavirus, experts need to ease fears over lifting the lockdown
The IndependentI’ll spare you the bad language, but the rumours coming out of government is that their “comms strategy” has scared people so witless that the authorities now worry that, even if lockdown is gradually relaxed, people won’t want to leave their homes. Brilliant specialists were interviewed who basically said they’d never seen anything like this “medieval” disease, with accounts of extreme oxygen starvation, kidney failure and lethal “sticky blood”. The accounts of Boris Johnson’s time in hospital – recently and distressingly updated by The Sun on Sunday – add to a sense of powerlessness in the face of coronavirus. Being pounded day after day with frontline reports from funeral homes and wards, as well as with moving stories about bereaved families, certainly does leave me – and others – frightened to go out.