For what it's worth this is what I sent a couple of days ago:
Dear Maria

I was disappointed not to receive a reply to my complaint about the imposition of the rule of 6 but feel I need to write again given the parliamentary time being devoted this week to the renewal of the Coronavirus Act. It’s disappointing that you have not yet declared any support for Sir Ian Brady’s amendment.

I’ve found the Johnson government’s handling of the Covid 19 issue deeply troubling and we seem to be lurching into more and more ill informed authoritarianism which is playing havoc both with the economy and the basic fabric of our society.

I could write on this subject all day but I would commend to you Lord Sumption’s masterful article in today’s Mail on Sunday, which really says it all.

The government seems hell bent on repeating past mistakes and throwing money around like a drunken sailor in the process. The press conference by Sir Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty really reached a new low and I can hardly believe any politician can hide behind “experts” and then not allow questions. Their presentation really was a master class in “how to lie with statistics”. The graph started in July rather than at the start of the pandemic and then extrapolated the small increase in cases since in a way which has already been derided as alarmist and not at all to be expected. Even then they could only arrive at a projected 200 deaths per day as opposed to 1000plus at peak in April. Yet this is being presented as evidence of a “second wave” when it is clearly little more than a ripple. Is the government deliberately trying to promote fear and if so why?

It was very concerning to read in the Telegraph the following day that Vallance has received enormous “bungs” from GSK and still holds large investments in a company producing vaccines. So hardly impartial. How can a Conservative government possible allow such people to set policy?

As well as the scandalous emptying of hospital beds and the canceling of nonCovid procedures I am also very concerned at the disruption to education caused by ridiculously alarmist precautions promoted by the teaching unions - sending home whole year groups when one child has a sniffle is crazy!

Please, Maria, do what you can to bring some light back and restrain this government’s reckless course, which will surely cause more harm than a virus ever could.

Kind regards,

Michael

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