The Government should trust the vaccines to return us to normal life
SIR – In all my medical career (and probably since Edward Jenner introduced vaccination) I have never come across a vaccine being launched where the message seems to be: “Have the vaccine but don’t trust it.”
The whole purpose of a vaccine is protection, or at least a very attenuated form of the illness. If the Government carries on with this madness there will never be a return to normal life.
Dr Robert Walter FRCP
Great Clifton, Cumbria
SIR – It has been suggested that key workers who have been double-jabbed should be exempt from self-isolation if they are pinged. Why not just stop self-isolation for all who have been double-jabbed? Surely the object of the exercise was to get the population vaccinated so that we could get back to some semblance of normality. To keep moving the goalposts is unhelpful, and will lead to apathy and people simply deleting the NHS Covid-19 app. Barbara Dennis
King’s Lynn, Norfolk
SIR – With supermarkets running out of food and the country slowly grinding to a halt at a time when economic recovery is so vital, can the Government not admit that the NHS Covid-19 app is no longer fit for purpose? There is no question of losing face if that is what it fears. The app was one of a range of tools designed to fight the pandemic before the advent of the vaccines. It’s time has passed.
Sue Pickard
Epsom, Surrey
SIR – I’m sick of hearing about key workers who should be exempt from this or that restriction. Our economy relies on any number of interlinked supply chains and disciplines, all of which need to be operating efficiently or the whole system starts to break down. We should get rid of this wretched app, stop the pings and get the economy moving again.
Neil Bailey
Stockport, Cheshire
SIR – Many people seem to be using the ping as an excuse to take the family on a holiday or enjoy time at local facilities. Isolation has become a vacation and makes a farce of government policy.
Workers who have had both jabs for at least two weeks and test negative for Covid should go back to work immediately so that our country can recover from this pandemic.
Peter Amey
Hoveton, Norfolk
SIR – A record 618,903 Covid alerts were sent to app users in England and Wales last week. These alerts are creating a new lockdown at a time when the economy is in desperate need for people to get back to work. Christopher Learmont-hughes Caldy, Cheshire
SIR – I would be interested to know what proportion of those who are pinged actually become ill with Covid.
Roger Vincent Beaumaris, Anglesey