I read your article (Covid test shortages threaten New Year’s Eve celebrations in England, 28 December) and I fully appreciate how the hospitality sector relies on these annual celebrations to swell their depleted coffers. I have great sympathy for their anxieties. But we have had the “save Christmas” mantra, and now it is the turn of new year festivities.
Even so soon after Christmas, if you inquire if friends had a good one, there is a pause, and a slight problem of recollection ensues. Of course, revellers are doing the right thing in wanting to do a test before stepping out, but I shall be stepping in. I will be quietly, but not abstemiously, seeing 2022 in and then going to bed, conscious of the fact that 1 January will be very much like the day before, but probably with a significant rise in Omicron cases. C’est la pandemic vie.
Judith Daniels
Cobholm, Norfolk
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