Dear Sir,

So, Boris has set out his plan for getting out of lockdown. It’ll take months, on top of the year we’ve endured so far, and it contains the caveat that it won’t necessarily end at all. That light at the end of the tunnel is just a fading eco-bulb nailed to a brick wall. They switch it on for a while, then switch it off again!

SAGE have declared that if lockdown ends, we will face up to 4000 deaths a day from the ‘Virus of Doom’. On the same day, and please note this is all on the same day, Matt Hancock has stated that the vaccines are so good that hospitalisations from Covid-19 are down 80%. So, massive resurgence with corpses in the streets, or the vaccine is working well and hardly anyone even needs a hospital. Which is it? I have talked to people who literally believe both simultaneously.

I read ‘1984’ many years ago and couldn’t quite grasp the concept of doublethink back then (holding two diametrically opposed opinions and believing in both at the same time). But I can see how it works now.

Meanwhile, there is much outrage over Matt Hancock handing his homework in late. He should have published details of the PPE procurement contracts within 30 days. He took 47 days and there was even a court case about it. This is irrelevant. Who can honestly say they’ve never being late handing in a report when under pressure? Okay, I have little time for the man, but when this epidemic was at its height, he had much more important matters to deal with than a bit of paperwork.

I don’t care at all about him late filing the reports. I’m not even all that bothered about him giving contracts to his mates. If the correct PPE showed up, at that time that was all that really mattered. Who provided it is not really of any consequence to me I can see it smacks of being shady and sneaky and under-the-table but he’s a politician – what else would you expect?

Much press time has been given to this late-homework nonsense. I am far more concerned about a much earlier and more sinister lie. Matt Hancock told Parliament that he had commissioned a study into Vitamin D and found it had no effect – no such study exists. He lied, to Parliament and the British people. Any immunologist, virologist, nutritionist, et al, will confirm that Vitamin D is an essential ingredient in a healthy immune system.

The Vitamin D lie was deliberate and potentially devastating. Most of those who got extremely sick and died with Covid-19 were, I’ll wager, Vitamin D deficient. A cheap supplement could have saved at least some of them and possibly made the disease far less nasty to many others.

I take Vitamin D, I have done every winter for 12 years, I’ve never suffered anything other than a minor head cold on the odd day or so in all that time. A pack of 400 tablets of 4000 IU costs about a tenner. More than a year’s supply for less than the price of a decent bottle of wine and much less than a bottle of decent whisky. Many people pay far more per month for Netflix or Sky than they’d pay for a year’s supply of Vitamin D. Don’t wait for the government to supply it, they never will, just get some. Especially if you are in northern England and are not Caucasian . . . or even if you are.

Trust me, you aren’t getting anywhere near enough of the free stuff from the pitiful amount of sunlight we get up here in winter.

Also, Vitamin C and Zinc supplements are essential immune system boosters as well. That combination will help against a lot more than just Covid-19.

We have announcements on the same day telling us we’re all going to die . . . and we are all simultaneously saved, we are all Schrodinger’s cat now, it’s as if reality belongs to a different universe.

AndyMac