IT'S PLASTIC THAT IS PROTECTING US FROM CORONAVIRUS

This is not something that is being pointed out by the media, but the truth is that our medical workers require massive amounts (more than a billion items) of protective clothing, the vast bulk of this is from single use plastic. As I have always maintained there is nothing wrong with using plastic as long as it is disposed of safely by incineration. 

There is an excellent article by Dominic Lawson in the Sunday Times of 26 April on this subject, see this link (£)