Should France be put on the red list (not for its wine)?
■ In response to Phil in the West Midlands (Metro, Tue), who believes our vaccination programme would also have been a success under EU rule, if you ran a company that manufactured Covid-19 vaccines, which customers would you prioritise when struggling to manufacture the vaccine fast enough?
Would that be countries that are vaccinating their citizens as quickly as they can, or the EU, which feels the millions of doses it is sitting on are still not enough?
Jonathan, Hampshire
■ Why is France not on the red list for travel into England? They had more than 37,000 Covid cases on Sunday and have only a 11 per cent vaccination rate. French hospitals are full.
President Emmanuel Macron’s attitude towards the UK before and after us leaving the EU has been poor, not to mention the nonsense he’s been saying about the Oxford vaccination. France should be on the red list.
Greig, Edinburgh
■ I could not agree more with Elsye Harney of Sudbury (MetroTalk, Mon). Our border control is totally inadequate and people cannot be trusted to self-isolate here. The virus in the EU is widespread and I predict that by early autumn we will have a huge spike over here once again.
Peter B, Greater Manchester
■ If the UK’s vaccine rollout had been behind the EU’s, I wonder how many people would be blaming Brexit for that.
Dave, Worksop
■ For Jon of Chester (MetroTalk, Mon), who is so in love with documentation and wants the non-vaccinated to carry some kind of Covid non-passport, you probably won’t feel safe until they are all tattooed on their foreheads with the word ‘Unclean’ and ringing a little bell. Linda, East Sussex
■ Jon in Chester, vaccination isn’t a cure-all or a magic guarantee that nobody will get or transmit the virus.
If we believe in human rights, those rights must apply to other people too, and demanding the triumph of ‘my rights (alone)’ is an absurd piece of special pleading. In any case, belittling the views of others and abusing them is not an argument.
Gordon, Croydon
■ Brian (MetroTalk, Mon) your conclusion that ‘Covid passports for pub access is morally wrong to those who decided not to have the vaccine’ because ‘someone cannot infect those who have the vaccine’ is flawed. It’s predicated on you being the only person in the pub who hasn’t been vaccinated.
Plus, the majority of young bar staff serving you won’t have been vaccinated either, so right there’s your potential chain of infection.
Nigel, Edinburgh
■ Brian from Hall Green is mistaken when he says people who have been vaccinated cannot transmit Covid-19. Though the severity of the disease for vaccinated people is likely to be reduced, they can still be infected and pass it on.
Andrew, Walton-on-Thames