Fear not -- grab the chance to have Covid jab
I HAVe studied immunology and just completed a post-graduate degree at the Centre of evidenceBased Medicine at Oxford.
I haven’t agreed with everything the Government has done about the virus. However, I have no doubts about taking a Covid-19 vaccine. In fact, if your doctor offers you a vaccine for anything, grab the chance.
People have forgotten how many people used to die of illnesses for which we now have routine vaccinations. My grandfather lost two sisters to diphtheria.
JulIA WERMIG, Burton Bradstock, Dorset.
Protect the NHS
OUR front-line NHS staff need to be the priority for the vaccine.
My son is a doctor working on a Covid ward. He is surrounded by desperately ill patients all day, but his only protection is a visor, plastic apron and gloves.
The NHS can’t risk its dedicated front-line workers getting sick — or worse.
P. GRIFFITHS, address supplied. IT’S wonderful news about the vaccine. Suddenly I’m glad I’m over 80.
MIKE HORGAN, Heswall, Wirral.
Police lives on the line
WHY aren’t police officers included in the list of people to receive the vaccine urgently?
I am a retired senior officer with a son and daughter on the frontline and a grandson applying to join the service.
I am angry about the lack of thought given to the safety of those who put their lives on the line for the public every day of their working life.
My son has been spat at by a man who said he had Covid.
BRIAN ROBINSON, Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk. I CAN’T wait to become a VIP (vaccine injected person).
FRED EDWARDS, Sidcup, Kent. IF PeOPLe are stupid enough to refuse a jab, will I get it quicker?
JOHN BOWYER, lincoln.
Get back to work
I AM 76 and have various health issues, which meant I spent six weeks in Harefield Hospital earlier this year.
I agree that the first to be vaccinated should be those working in the NHS and care homes.
However, I feel the next in line should not be the elderly, but those who can’t work from home. It is imperative to get the economy working again.
Like many others, I’ve followed lockdown instructions to the letter and am prepared to continue doing so for several months if that is what it takes to get the country back on its feet. MAlCOlM CAIRNS,
Radlett, Herts.
Leading the world
GeRMANY could approve the Pfizer vaccine in the way we have, but says it will wait until it can be rolled out to all european countries simultaneously.
It shows eU leaders are more interested in their european dream than the people they are supposed to represent. MICHAEl lYNCHEHAuN,
Wallasey, Wirral. PeOPLe complained that the Government reacted too slowly when the pandemic started. Now they are saying they are acting too quickly over vaccination.
M. WIllIAMS, Newtown, Powys.
First in the queue
IT’S great news about the vaccine. To reassure the public about its safety, I suggest all members of the Government, SAGe and the Chief Medical and Science Officers should receive it first.
C. HARPER, Carlisle, Cumbria. We SHOULD be standing on our doorsteps clapping the scientists who have created the vaccines that will give us our lives back.
J. GREEN, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffs.
Grim up North
IN THe North-West, we will be lucky if our pubs ever reopen.
My local, The New Oxford, is a typical street corner pub where friends used to meet and chew the fat. Of the 25 pumps on the bar, 19 were ever-changing real ales from microbreweries.
When the Chancellor finally realises how much the country is going to lose in beer tax and VAT, maybe he will do something to help the hospitality industry.
To come out of a recession, people have to be able to spend their money in shops and pubs, but these are closing at an alarming rate. If Boris Johnson has any hope of keeping the voters in the North who changed parties, he needs to start listening to local health officials, not the scientists.
N. CROMPTON, Salford, Gtr Manchester.
Misguided luvvies
CeLeBRITIeS want to prevent the deportation of convicted murderers and rapists.
These rich people enjoy protected and cosseted lives far removed from the pain and grief that has been inflicted on the victims and their families.
If these criminals facing deportation had caused such suffering to their loved ones, would they be so eager to defend them?
ERIC WARD, Rhuddlan, Denbighshire. IT’S hardly surprising that pinkoliberal luvvies and Labour MPs have signed a petition to stop the deportation of foreign murderers, rapists and hardened criminals. Can we deport them instead?
CHRIS PATE, Worcester.
Crippled by Tier 3
eVeRYONe flocking to the shops (Mail)? I went shopping the day that lockdown ended and the roads were quiet, shops deserted and pubs, bars, restaurants and cafes boarded up.
It was upsetting to see how Tier 3 is crippling my city. Meanwhile, London is in Tier 2 and crowds are fighting to get into JD Sports on Oxford Street.
SuE HOWE, Manchester.
Dying for a bargain?
PeOPLe piling into Debenhams to grab a bargain shows how the virus spreads so easily.
While I appreciate it’s necessary for shops to be open for business, we could be looking at another lockdown brought about by people blatantly failing to observe social distancing.
We owe it to each other to observe the rules, otherwise our sacrifices will be in vain.
ARTHuR H. MAlE, Fleet Hargate, lincs.
THe crush of Oxford Street shoppers are dying for a bargain — in two weeks’ time.
P. GARROD, Portsmouth, Hants.
Deserving of a honour
THe people of Grantham are voting on whether or not to erect a statue of their famous daughter, Margaret Thatcher.
I have seen a bronze bust of this great stateswoman, which was unveiled on Thatcher Day, June 10, 2015, on Thatcher Drive in Port Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands.
Why is there opposition here to honouring those who have done great things for this country?
P. HuNT, leamington Spa, Warks.