Early closing of pubs won’t halt virus – Yorkshire Post Letters

PUBS must now close at 10pm, ostensibly to help stop the spread of the virus.

We have a reversion to Scottish licensing law from over 50 years ago when people sped up their drinking with pints and whisky chasers as the witching hour approached before shutters down at 9.50pm and out on the street by 10pm – a recipe for getting drunk quickly.

So I really cannot see how this measure can achieve anything at all except to increase infections as tipsy people are all thrown together on the streets, trying to find taxis or find their way home, as opposed to a more graduated movement of people under normal licensing laws.

This is another ill-thought-out panic measure from Ministers and advisers completely out of touch with real life.

From: John Pennington, Bradford.

BORIS Johnson promises extra financial support towards Covid policing (The Yorkshire Post, September 23).

Police chiefs say they will step-up patrols in high-risk areas.

Evidence of non-compliance by pubs and other businesses requires immediate shut down for an indefinite period, fines will never be paid.

If the police for some reason feel uncomfortable to act, call-in the military.

From: Peter Asquith-Cowen, Anlaby, Near Beverley.

TEACHERS and the emergency services need proper funding and not wage cuts which the Tories deliberately brought in.

Those in the North who voted Tory should think again, but Sir Keir Starmer has to become far more radical and engaging if he is to secure the vote of the British people (The Yorkshire Post, September 23). He needs to be quite clear where he stands and at this point in time, to me, he is ‘neither nowt nor summ’t’ as the old Yorkshire saying goes.

The fact remains we are in a global crisis, a crisis that may see mass unemployment. Neither the Tories nor Labour, in my opinion and at this point in time, have a credible, practical, cohesive plan that will get us through it. We need a miracle and a big one at that.

From: Ralph W Middlebrook, Pudsey.

ALL of a sudden pensioners seem to be in the financial firing range.

Our local pharmacy now informs us that they can only deliver prescription medication to us if we pay £90 and even then cannot deliver glass or refrigerated items.

On the same day we received the TV licence letter and a further letter congratulating my wife on reaching 80 years of age, and that she was due to an additional 25 pence per week increase!

From: Christine McDade, Morton on Swale.

BORIS Johnson has announced that taxi drivers and passengers must wear masks, but chauffeurs and their passengers don’t have to follow suit. Why?

From: Phyllis Capstick, Hellifield.

WE have been given the gift of life, and we should be allowed to make the most of it, whatever that means to the individual, and not be dictated to by idiots.

From: Mrs AM Morton, Marten Drive, Huddersfield.

WHEN I was a student nurse at Great Ormond Street in the 1950s, hair had to be off the face and off the collar. No wonder the virus is out of control.

From: Ross Taggart, Eaglescliffe, Stockton-on-Tees.

WE have an invisible but nonetheless deadly enemy in our midst. The fight against it appears to be undermined at every turn by a vociferous band of overpaid and overblown TV presenters seemingly only too eager to keep having a go at the country. We have a right to expect better from the BBC.

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James Mitchinson