Please, ditch the masks What’s wrong with print?

MASKS have become a social thing now – a piece of cloth anywhere about the face or even under the chin, soaked in condensed breath, sweat, saliva, and worse. Frequently handled, rarely washed, and often left on the table in a restaurant, as I actually saw when I recently ate out. Disgusting. A better way of spreading disease – not just Covid – would be hard to imagine.

Malcolm Parkin,

Kinross.

IN Saturday’s editorial (“The importance of a strong turnout on May 5; and the census shambles”, The Herald, April

30) you wonder if the fact that the census was chiefly conducted online counted against it.

Here in Rothesay, the bus company has discontinued production of printed timetables in favour of providing information online. This means that most of those who wish to use buses are kept in the dark about the frequent changes, whereas those who wouldn’t dream of using buses are copiously informed. This exemplifies the modern way of doing things, and anyone presuming to criticise betrays a lack of appreciation of 21st century efficiency.

Robin Dow,

Rothesay.