Pointless quarantine

SIR – Why is the Government imposing a quarantine on people arriving from France (report, August 14) when it does not have the resources required to enforce this?

Public patience is wearing thin with these knee-jerk and largely pointless measures. If people decide to ignore the restrictions (and it seems many of them already do), perhaps this will result in a step towards the normality that our economy so desperately needs. Al Matthews Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

SIR – In last Sunday’s letters, David Curtis-Brignell asked why an overseas holiday was seen as a right, while Chris Balderston suggested that all travel (except for emergencies) should be banned.

We are among the many people whose children and grandchildren all live overseas, and have been effectively prevented from seeing them for the foreseeable future. We have not yet met our two-month-old granddaughter in real life (Zoom is a poor substitute).

Some travel is not simply a luxury. Tim Guest Kinsale, Co Cork, Ireland