Shadow of Big Brother in Government’s Track and Trace app
HAS the Government shot itself in the foot with regard to its Track and Trace app?
Although not a supporter of the strategy now imposed upon us by Boris Johnson and his cohorts, I have done my best to adhere to the advice. I even downloaded the Track and Trace app.
However, now it would appear that the police are going to be given access to personal data via this app, I have now disabled it.
I don’t think I will be the only one to take this course of action. Big Brother is among us. We are becoming close to being a police state, and not so slowly!
From: John Rayner,
Ferriby.
North
BILLCarmichael( The Yorkshire Post, October16) shouldbrush uponhisarithmeticalgrammar. HeberatesLabourfiguresfor inconsistencyovertheirrecent oppositiontoGovernmentstrategy onCovid, buthisexample quotes donotsupporthisprejudice.
Mr Carmichael quotes Shadow
Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth: “A full national lockdown ... for weeks and weeks would be disastrous...” and then considers this inconsistent with Sir Keir Starmer’s subsequent call for a full lockdown lasting “up to three weeks”.
Insimplegrammar, thephrase “weeksandweeks” includestwo plurals, sorepresentsa minimum of fourweeks, andimplies somewhat more. Sir Keirmentions “nomorethanthree” ( implying probablyfewer), sothetwoare indeed mutuallyconsistent.
Mr Ashworth could have said
“several weeks”, “weeks and months”, “months and months” etc. As an exercise, perhaps Mr Carmichael could rank the following in ascending order: “one or two”, “several”, “a few”, “no more than three”, “many”.
From: Barry Foster, Stakesby, Whitby.
High
IT really is time all politicians stopped playing the popularity game and got together to help to see us all through the Covid days.
Theyandwe shouldall be sticking together togetusthrough these difficulttimes. Itistime westoppedcomparingit tothe waryears. Most ofuswerenot alive atthattime. Thevirus is worldwideand tryingtoblamethe Governmentisinmyviewunfair.
From: Cecil Crinnion, Sycamore Close, Slingsby.
IT’S no good the Government following the rules on scientific advice during this pandemic if the people don’t. A good outcome to this pandemic relies on everyone doing everything they can to follow the advice given.