NHS heroes deserve pay rise before teachers – Yorkshire Post Letters

From: Peter Rickaby, West Park, Selby.
The Covid vaccine rollout is a great success sotry, say readers.The Covid vaccine rollout is a great success sotry, say readers.
The Covid vaccine rollout is a great success sotry, say readers.

NIGHTLY on TV news, medical staff, under extreme pressure, are shown in hospital wards working 12-hour shifts providing wonderful care for very sick people.

Teachers also are having to work to different protocols but to compensate for this their union is demanding financial reward before agreeing to reopen schools.

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Should there be any spare money available at the Treasury, then only one of these professions deserves monetary reward – and it is not teachers.

Boris Johnson has been at the forefront of the vaccine rollout programme.Boris Johnson has been at the forefront of the vaccine rollout programme.
Boris Johnson has been at the forefront of the vaccine rollout programme.

MORE than 15 million first dose inoculations have been given by February 15.

To go from zero last March to 15 million vaccinations in less than a year is a phenomenal achievement.

This really ought to be recognised as such. This would be a change from all the political point-scoring over recent 
times.

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It may well be that the development of these new vaccines will turn out to be one 
of the great advances that mankind has made in the last 75 years.

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