I was surprised to see that your article (The Covid-19 inquiry is sounding a clear warning. If it’s not heeded, yet more lives will be lost, 5 March) speaks of those who suffered during the pandemic in the past tense, and does not mention the hundreds of thousands, like myself, who still suffer from long Covid. It is a devastating condition that is too often forgotten when the pandemic is discussed. Meanwhile, long Covid clinics are underfunded and many have closed. To many, the pandemic must feel like a nightmare that is thankfully in the past. For me, it never ended.
Julia Fahrenkamp-Uppenbrink
London
• I remember two pieces of advice from my mother (My mother’s best advice: learn to raise one eyebrow at the world, 11 March). Always air your underwear. And never marry a clergyman – she had and I did! I still keep to the first and have never regretted ignoring the second – 60th anniversary this year.
Felicity Randall
Fakenham, Norfolk
