Covid choices and how
■ Regarding the Covid passports debate, what has happened to choice? It seems clear to me that the owners/management of shops, pubs, restaurants, nightclubs and theatres should be the ones to decide whether they are happy with opening normally again or whether they want to insist on only allowing in people with such a ‘passport’. Then we can all have choices on where to go depending on how we feel. Much like the way it is now, where some pubs want proof of age/ID and have a dress code, while others don’t.
Juliet, London
■ Liz says she is not having the jab and probably has ‘better’ immunity than those who have because she has had Covid (MetroTalk, Fri). Careful reading of the British Medical Journal reveals this is not automatically the case. Ignorance comes from a little knowledge. As she says, ‘Ever thought about that?’
Jon, Chester
■ I’m totally in favour of vaccine passports. As Liz said, she wants us to respect her choice to be anti-vaccine. Fine, but choices have consequences and if vaccine passports are brought in,
when they’ve been looked after – are concerned.
When the government wages a war on tobacco and drugs and the many takeaway establishments about to take over (because, let’s be honest, there will be no shops or decent independent restaurants around), I would be more inclined to listen.
I haven’t missed the hustle and bustle of ‘normal’ city life, I won’t be rushing to ‘spend my cash’ and I don’t want to sit outside in a freezing cold beer garden where people can smoke, especially not when most people have built bars in their gardens (not sure how Covid certification would work there, exactly).
The government has made us all stay home and I think it will be surprised to find out that, for many, it’s actually not all that bad. Bev, Birmingham
Colin talks about sitting next to ‘obese people who smell of stale tobacco’ on an all-inclusive holiday flight to Malaga. What a pig. I have been on all-inclusive holidays, not to Europe, but to Asia. And not for the booze, as he puts it.
I walk my dog every day and I’m not, and never have been, obese. I think it’s very judgemental and pathetic to assume people who have the vaccine are somehow a lower species.
I’ve had the vaccine because I care enough about other people to protect them and myself.