Beware the real attacks on public’s liberties

IN recent weeks, I have listened with growing incredulity, to Tory politicians attacking the Government’s latest Covid measures as an “attack on our liberties and freedoms”.

I accept that the timing of the measures might have been Boris Johnson’s attempt to distract the populace from his own obfuscations.

However, these same MPs will happily vote for laws that restrict the right to march and protest, for measures that restrict the rights of the courts to hold the Government to account, measures which allow the Government to interfere with the Electoral Commission and will support the threat to abolish the Human Rights Act.

These are the real attacks on our liberties and freedoms being proposed or contemplated by the

Government.

Wearing a mask in an enclosed public space doesn’t protect the mask-wearer, so much as protects other people who are in the vicinity; it is an act of courtesy.

As for those individuals who are refusing to be vaccinated, I accept that this is their “right”.

However, they don’t have the right to increase their chances of catching the virus and infecting other people.

Furthermore, the unvaccinated are, in effect, providing a safe haven for the virus where it can continue to mutate, thus causing further restrictions, hospitalisation and, possibly, deaths.

As the doctors and scientists keep saying: “No one is safe, until everyone is safe.”

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Must be very confusing for our plant life and wildlife as well.

Now we are being told we are in for weeks of freezing conditions and even some snow.

Our summers are getting hotter but not necessarily drier. More like monsoon season.

So we can see with our own eyes how climate change is slowly shaping our world and it’s difficult to argue that it is not.

L Williams,

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