Singled out for greatness, this letter writer seems confused. Separation isn’t the opposite of cooperation. Non-cooperation is. You can be separate and still cooperate. You could be united in some arrangement and still not cooperate. It’s all a matter of goodwill.
Does anyone think that Norway and Denmark, for example, will not cooperate to try to control the Coronavirus epidemic? There are even Chinese medics in France helping out with their unique expertise. I don’t suppose Johnson will ask them to help. British Bulldog spirit and all that?
As things develop and the level of serious infection in some English hospitals goes through the roof, seriously challenging their resilience, does anyone doubt that an independent Scotland, with its superior public services, would not help?
That the issues with resilience in NHS England’s wounded service will mean little or no help flowing the other, matters not to us.
Note: The death rate of those hospitalised with the virus is already 4 times higher in NHS England than in NHS Scotland. Despite that, the level of screening in England is much lower than in Scotland.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
A certain Councillor in the Herald I believe.
Evidence that for the Tories separation goes hand in hand with end to cooperation
https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/conservative-party/news/110247/former-tory-health-minister-condemns-no10
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This is an opinion article in the online Daily Telegraph today. Don’t worry I have not linked to it but just wanted people to see it and ponder
“”The EU’s cack-handed response to coronavirus is proof we were right to get out”” by Roger Bootle
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Back in the 70’s ( I know) on Radio 4, there was a programme called Jack De Manio Precisely, which featured the weird, the strange and the wonderful. One running theme I remember was about “Venusians” and a society formed by people who believed they were receiving messages from them—who were interviewed by De Manio as though he was asking about events in Cricklewood.
I think of “Venusians” ( pronounced Venoo-sians, if I remember correctly) when I see stuff from Brexiteers, Brit Nats an Labour Cooncillors.
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It seems to me a pity we can’t close the border and deny entry of planes, trains and automobiles from contagion rife England. That might concentrate minds: egad! it might not be over by the Glorious 12th!
The strategy of asking over 70s to isolate themselves so they don’t catch Covid-19 assumes it won’t go on to circulate in the population which seems to me as a Biomedical scientist the most probable outcome from current lukewarm Wastemonster response.
So when the elderly come out of isolation they will just get infected en mass as naive to it while the rest of the population have some immunity from having had it but will still be spreading it.
Chances are, like other coronaviruses which cause the common cold, Covid-19 will circulate and mutate and come back seasonally and will likely moderate its severity.
I was ill from Fri to Sun but my symptoms were not consistent so I await my infection with interest. Will being fit and healthy mean I’m okay or will my mild (up here in Dundee) asthma make it hard for me. I’m a runner so my blood has a good carrying capacity for oxygen so unless I get secondary pneumonia I should be alright.
Pneumonia is a risk for me every winter as I cannot have flu vaxes since a nasty allergic reaction to one over a decade ago. I dodged it last year by managing to get a really good night’s sleep which meant my resolve to go to the GP was not actioned.
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