I won’t use ‘Big Brother’ Track and Trace app now police have data access – Yorkshire Post Letters

HAS the Government shot itself in the foot with regard to its Track and Trace app?

Although not a supporter of the strategy now imposed upon us by Boris Johnson and his cohorts, I have done my best to adhere to the advice. I even downloaded the Track and Trace app.

However, now it would appear that the police are going to be given access to personal data via this app, I have now disabled it.

I don’t think I will be the only one to take this course of action. Big Brother is among us. We are becoming close to being a police state, and not so slowly!

From: John Rayner, North Ferriby.

BILL Carmichael (The Yorkshire Post, October 16) should brush up on his arithmetical grammar. He berates Labour figures for inconsistency over their recent opposition to Government strategy on Covid, but his example quotes do not support his prejudice.

Mr Carmichael quotes Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth: “A full national lockdown ... for weeks and weeks would be disastrous...” and then considers this inconsistent with Sir Keir Starmer’s subsequent call for a full lockdown lasting “up to three weeks”.

In simple grammar, the phrase “weeks and weeks” includes two plurals, so represents a minimum of four weeks, and implies somewhat more. Sir Keir mentions “no more than three” (implying probably fewer), so the two are indeed mutually consistent.

Mr Ashworth could have said “several weeks”, “weeks and months”, “months and months” etc. As an exercise, perhaps Mr Carmichael could rank the following in ascending order: “one or two”, “several”, “a few”, “no more than three”, “many”.

From: Barry Foster, High Stakesby, Whitby.

IT really is time all politicians stopped playing the popularity game and got together to help to see us all through the Covid days.

They and we should all be sticking together to get us through these difficult times. It is time we stopped comparing it to the war years.Most of us were not alive at that time. The virus is worldwide and trying to blame the Government is in my view unfair.

From: Cecil Crinnion, Sycamore Close, Slingsby.

IT’S no good the Government following the rules on scientific advice during this pandemic if the people don’t. A good outcome to this pandemic relies on everyone doing everything they can to follow the advice given.

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