Supermarkets need to step up over safety – Yorkshire Post Letters

IN response to the news about supermarkets, I would welcome some tougher restrictions (The Yorkshire Post, January 12). Your Editorial says, don’t blame supermarkets. I do; they can do more.

Asda’s Kingswood store in Hull was packed and crowded on Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoon, so customers and staff could not social distance if they wanted too.

The main problem is there are no limits on the numbers allowed in store and no-one on the door like there was in the first lockdown. Meanwhile the nearby M&S is carefully counting all customers in and out.

Yet Asda CEO Roger Burnley said in a recent statement that Asda is continuing to keep staff and customers safe. He or his management team need to leave their comfy office and see what’s really going on, on the ground, in their stores.

I know they are busy but perhaps the Humberside Police should pay a visit to big stores that are open to see how they are coping with Lockdown 3.

From: David Blakeborough, Huddersfield.

I LIVE in Huddersfield where there are three vaccination centres either up and running or coming very soon, that I know of. I am not in the highest category, and quite happy to wait my turn.

The other morning I received a text from my surgery saying that they would be contacting me in due course to go to “our nearest centre in Manchester” – a drive of at least 25 miles when we are being told to stay near to home.

My brother-in-law, who is nearly 95 and lives in Liversedge, was given an appointment in December for his vaccination. It was cancelled a few days later and he has still not been invited to return. On phoning the surgery this week he was told that they had no vaccine, and it “may be a few weeks” before he is called.

If that isn’t chaos, I don’t know what is.

From: Alan Chapman, Beck Lane, Bingley.

THE BBC condemns Boris Johnson for cycling seven miles as breaking Covid rules. I am 78 years old. I wish I could walk or cycle seven miles; I would do so regularly despite the “thought police” interfering imposing fines for taking solo exercise!

I live in Bingley within the Shipley constituency and consider anywhere with in my constituency as local. Thus cycling from Burley in Wharfedale to Crossflatts, Bingley is probably about seven miles and completely acceptable.

Get off Boris Johnson’s back – he is trying to set a good example of fresh air exercising that is recommended to alleviate mental stress in the lockdown.

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