So many coronavirus doom merchants around

Even as most of us are emerging from our lockdowns and looking forward to a more normal way of life, the doom and gloom and disaster merchants are still hard at it, trying to warn us that we've seen nothing yet. The gloomiest of this bunch is the head of the World Health Organisation. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general, said the other day that the worst is yet to come. Now how about that for a slap in our respective faces. How can we look forward to and plan for a better future if according to this highly paid gentleman it's all going to come tumbling down upon us again soon and many many people will die. We need our spirits lifted not thrown down into a deep pit. The WHO boss needs to get a life. Unfortunately, some countries, notably the United States, have handled the virus so badly that instead of seeing a sharp decline in the infections and deaths there are huge spikes going on in up to 16 states. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert in the US, has warned there could be soon be 100,000 more virus cases every day in America. Truly shocking! But in so many other countries the signs are much more encouraging. Even here in the UK, despite an alarming rise in cases in the city of Leicester, the trend is definitely downwards, and on Saturday pubs and restaurants are going to be opening for the first time since the end of March. But never mind these hopeful signs, the WHO chief wants us all to know that if we thought we had had it badly so far, just wait until the next wave arrives. I'm sure he is very clever and must have been chosen to be director-general for the right reasons. But do we need ghastly predictions of future death and disaster? No we don't.