Our children will be paying for a generation

Ron Davies (Letters, May 7) thinks we will come through this catastrophe by using a stiff upper lip, and lists a number of previous disasters to illustrate his point. The difference this time is that the government has deliberately inflicted this massive act of self-harm that is the lockdown, with no evidence it is actually effective or has saved a single life. Using NHS data, the chances of anyone over 65 contracting Covid-19 and dying from it are less than one in 200. Much less if you are heal