So testing for travellers should be on Day 5, with isolation before it. Had I relied on my first test, I would have been out and about in the community. A lateral flow at home showed negative, but my feeling was that I was positive, so five days after my younger child tested positive, I was back at the drive-through centre. Again I was negative, as was my elder daughter, but my husband was positive.įor the third time, I tested on Saturday, this time with a cough. I first PCR tested last Tuesday with my daughter when she felt unwell. I got the news at 7am on Sunday after taking a PCR test at a drive-through centre on Saturday. The unvaccinated look at those who made the effort, see no new freedoms, and wonder why they should bother. SIR – There might have been greater take-up of the Covid vaccine if the Government had been positive and removed all restrictions from those fully vaccinated with the three doses. We are no longer a parliamentary democracy. That is just lip service to democratic governance. Parliament will vote on the law in the next 28 days. SIR – Three people are found with the omicron variant on Saturday and masks become mandatory three days later. We get too used to “Why should I?” and “Me, me, me.” The government knew this in 1940.
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This is also why, counter-intuitively, in a free and liberal society it is sometimes necessary to legislate and enforce rather than appeal to people’s better selves. Otherwise it would be like saying during the Blitz: “I don’t want to turn off my lights or shut my curtains because I’m happy to take the personal risk.” The bombs this attracted would have been 100 times more likely to kill someone other than yourself. SIR – It is, simply and absolutely, selfish not to wear a mask. I’m triple-jabbed and I’m in my seventies. My plans for a family Christmas will continue.
No more masks, distancing, avoiding social gatherings, bumping elbows. Matthew Biddlecombe Sampford Courtenay, Devon
SIR – What is the logic behind allowing us free access to cinemas with no face masks where, if the auditorium is full, one can observe no sort of distancing, yet in a supermarket, where observing social distancing doesn’t present much of a problem, we have to mask up? The Prime Minister is saying that I must wear a mask in a shop, even if I’m the only one in there and I’m in and out in a matter of minutes, but I can spend all night in a pub with scores of other people and I don’t need a mask.