You’ll not need mask if not face to face...
AS a retired welder fabricator for more than 40 years and used to wearing face mask protection for obvious reasons I can say that people wearing face masks just to go shopping and on the buses is a total waste of time.
They are not healthy as bacteria builds up around the mouth because your lungs need fresh air, not half-recycled air, and because moisture droplets build up and mix with the half-used air from your lungs and are drawn back into your lungs. You would have to change the mask every hour or less to help keep the air clean going into your lungs.
I had to wear them for hours and it can bring on sore throats and chest infections because of the bacteria building up behind the mask, especially if you don’t clean your teeth after meals because food bacteria can mix with the droplets. Also, if the virus is about every person around would get infected because viruses get into the skin through sweating, and the eyes, and anywhere else where the skin is open to the open air whatever you touch.
Yes, wear a mask at the doctors’ waiting room and also hospital waiting areas, but not in supermarkets and shops because supermarkets are mostly big open halls and air conditioning systems are always running.
Our government is good at scaremongering and our country needs to get back to normal working life, but... masks, they are a germ hive and you can get nasty throat infections and horrible coughs.
Yes I was a welder fabricator and welding masks are a lot more like oxygen masks than the cloth masks that we are supposed to have on a bus and in the shops As long as you are not face to face with anyone you’ll not need a face mask.
Paul Brunton, via email
What a clever chap he is
SOME might call him a shifty bullying rascal but Boris Johnson is a clever chap, always able to turn scandal to good account.
So his response to challenges about the long delayed report on Russian influence on our politics is to immediately drag out taunts about an “Islingtonian remainers” plot to undermine Brexit. He even resurrected Dom Cummings’ old “take back control” slogan and dogwhistle referred to Jeremy Corbyn appearing on Russia Today.
He didn’t mention his father and senior Tories having also appeared.
His selective memory, fake outrage, and theatrical bluster are deployed to camouflage the simple fact that the government simply doesn’t want questions asked about money buying political influence. It may not be in brown paper packets, but when there’s so much dosh sloshing about one has to ask why your nose suspects a whiff of corruption.
The ministerial response to local MP Afzal Khan’s challenge about London property being used as a safe offshore piggy bank for dodgy Roubles was feeble. He referred to Unexplained Wealth Orders and the ability to seize ill-gotten gains. He didn’t share how these are virtually unused.
Fortunately his party can be quite brutal in deposing its leaders. Sir Graham Brady as chair of the Tory backbenchers must be wondering when he’s going to be called to act. With Brexit’s multiple complications and opportunities, I hope it’s weeks rather than months – decent Conservatives deserve better. “Former Tory voter”, Salford
Greater say for public?
SINCE the introduction of Police and crime commissioners in 2012 the general public do not seem to have a voice as they did when we had police authorities.
Andy Burnham and Baroness Beverley Hughes, on policing and holding the chief constable to account has been very poor. The force has been ridiculed with incompetence and Hopkins the chief constable appears to be as slippery as an eel. One of the recommendations states reviewing the relationship between PCCs and chief constables.
The full recommendations can be seen on the GOV.UK websitehttps://www.gov.uk/government/news/ priti-patel-to-give-public-greatersay-over-policing-through-pccreview
Simon Lewis, via email
Change is what we need
AS Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Ed Woodward sit there looking smug about Bruno Fernandes’ performances one has to wonder where we would have been if they had bought him last summer.
I, like others, e-mailed MUTV many times towards the end of last season pointing out that he was the answer to our midfield problems.
As we come to the end of this season it is obvious we need big changes.
It is hard to make a case for keeping Paul Pogba. His on-field performances do not warrant the legend created by the publicity machine. Matic is also hit and miss and too slow. A fast-paced, top-class centre-half to play alongside Harry Maguire is a necessity. Plus a better striker than Odion Ighalo to challenge Anthony Martial.
As for the goalkeeping situation, Dean Henderson should be brought back from Sheffield United and start the season as number one.
Jack Haynes, Swinton