PETER HITCHENS: The Government’s National Panic Service is being used to keep us in a condition of perpetual alarm about coronavirus

Dear Peter,

Thank you for being the only journalist in the UK and maybe the world actually reporting facts big crush on you at the moment :)

If you’re old enough you can well understand how it is that utterly useless people get to run health boards and quangos and the like however, how someone as woke, politically correct and feeble as Welby can rise to his exalted position is a very curious state of affairs. How does it happen? How can someone like this rise all the way from humble beginnings right to the very top without being rumbled? Unless they’re all in it together. Which wouldn’t surprise me.

I recently gave blood and have just received my £60 fine from the venue's car park operator after driving 20 miles to donate. My fault I should have noted the restrictions but if its going to be so much trouble and money (donate blood at a venue who nakes money off the parking charges of donors) to donate it's not surprising so few people do.....this session was the closest to me on a day I wasn't working.
I won't be putting myself out for a while now.
(Thanks to Crewe Alexaxndra and their Parking Eye allies for the fine)

**The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, is, in my view, prissy, pathetic and political.**
That is praise way too high Mr Hitchens. This man (Welby) who is endowed with grand titles such as principal leader and symbolic head of the Church of England represents? … erh... Nothing. He hangs like a wet tissue on garden fence blowing and swaying in the gentle breeze. What hope, belief and conviction can he offer to the few left in the dwindling numbers in the church congregations? Absolutely none. Unfortunately, all that he represents is another symbol of this weak and woke society which is withering like a discarded Christmas tree lying in a bleak London back alley in January.

I wanted to share a concern I feel about the inappropriate and possibly harmful effects of wearing a face mask, now much more common for example where I live (Bury, Lancashire) after being made compulsory in shops. I am now seeing many more young people and children wearing masks; which in practice are now worn on the way to do shopping, not just while in shops. The effect on children especially can only be harmful, especially in reducing oxygen levels in the blood. More worrying even than this was the sight of a pregnant woman in a mask. I worry that a lower level of oxygen in the woman's bloodstream might have a harmful effect on the unborn baby. Surely this is one case where a "better safe than sorry" attitude would be a good idea. Government should make it clear that children and pregnant women should not wear masks.