PETER HITCHENS: Yes, coronavirus poses a risk - but our response to it is not intelligent or useful. Britain is infected... by a bad case of madness

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

Yes, you are right. We have gone quite mad. I know that many people are thinking this, but dare not say so. 

I will be accused of all kinds of terrible things for taking this view ��� but that is another aspect of how crazy things are.

Yes, coronavirus poses a risk. No, our response to it is not intelligent or useful. In fact, I think it is increasingly damaging and will soon become more so.

The key word here is proportion. There is...