Regulating access to every kind of public activity with Covid passports
sir – I fully support the Government’s policy on Covid passports, which are essential to Covid security.
The system must be rolled out to every premises that we routinely use, and people’s documents must be checked at every opportunity. Only those who are vaccinated must be given the right to use shops, public transport or places of entertainment.
The behaviour of the unvaccinated is contrary to the interests of society and they must in effect have their citizenship withdrawn. None must hold a position of responsibility such as that of a doctor, teacher or lawyer, because they are a threat to the nation’s health. Ultimately we must consider placing them in protective custody.
Am I exaggerating, or is this the thin end of the wedge?
Mike Tickner
Warminster, Wiltshire
sir – If Covid passes are a “conspiracy against freedom” (Madeline Grant, Comment, July 21) then, surely, so are driving licences. Both, essentially, do the same thing: certify that you are capable of moving freely through society without injuring or causing the death of yourself or other people.
Why should one be deemed acceptable but not the other?
Patrick Miller
Seaton Carew, Co Durham
sir – What is the difference between the Government coercing British society to have the vaccine and the Chinese Communist Party’s “social credit” system?
Both seem to mean that you are disadvantaged if you don’t do as the state expects of you “voluntarily”. Paul Gaynor
Windermere, Cumbria
sir – In the spring (Letters, April 5), in response to Lord Greenhalgh failing to rule out Covid certificates for churches, I asked whether sidesmen would be retrained as bouncers so that only those with the right papers would be allowed entry.
Four months later, it is barely credible that vaccine passports are being discussed for entry to public worship. Will there be a two-tier system – some churches open to all, while others insist on the right papers? Dr Penelope Upton
Lighthorne, Warwickshire
sir – Will the Government tell tourists and British subjects vaccinated overseas how many more years its bureaucracy needs to recognise our fully vaccinated status?
If the NHS Covid passport is also the gateway for UK attractions, pubs and restaurants, a visit to Britain to see our relatives will become even more of an expensive prison confinement. Jonathan Evans
Lantau, Hong Kong
sir – I have not heard the BBC report the reduction in infections, down 17 per cent over the past few days.
It’s a great shame that it is avoiding reporting some good news.
Leslie Mitchell