Tag new arrivals to UK to ensure they isolate – Yorkshire Post Letters

From: Hilary Andrews, Nursery Lane, Leeds.
New quarantine arrangements at airports continue to prompt much debate and discussion.New quarantine arrangements at airports continue to prompt much debate and discussion.
New quarantine arrangements at airports continue to prompt much debate and discussion.

WE really do have to get control of our borders and make sure that people entering our country isolate and get regular tests. The idea of quarantine hotels is a complex system to set up (The Yorkshire Post, February 10).

Would it be possible to electronically tag everyone who enters the country and make sure that they stick to the isolation rules and attend for the required tests?

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I realise the civil rights people would be up in arms at this idea, but this pandemic has gone on long enough and severe measures are needed.

Tough new quarantine laws for air travellers come into force from today.Tough new quarantine laws for air travellers come into force from today.
Tough new quarantine laws for air travellers come into force from today.

From: Lesley Skorupka, Rookery Dale, Boosbeck.

TENS of thousands of people are due to arrive into the UK from virus-ridden countries.

The isolation hotels here aren’t even ready yet. The horse will have bolted for definite by the time the stable door is shut yet again. Close the stable door now Boris.

From: Michael Green, Baghill Green, Tingley.

YOUR reader Nigel Harper, in praising the highly organised local arrangements for Covid vaccinations (The Yorkshire Post, February 10), contrasts this with “the Prime Minister responsible now for 100,000 deaths”.

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And there was I thinking that these deaths were due to serious illness caused by, or at any rate contributed to by, the coronavirus.

I know that Boris Johnson has got some stick recently for his photo-opportunity travels the length and breadth of the country. But I didn’t realise he was actually going round spreading the virus himself.

From: Elisabeth Baker, Leeds.

A FEW weeks ago I was shocked to hear a GP on Radio 4 refer to medicine as an “industry”. The misuse of the word now seems to be spreading. On the Imagine programme on BBC 1, Alan Yentob referred to the arts as an industry, and this was echoed in the listing for the programme in the Radio Times. My Oxford dictionary says that industry, as a noun, means a “branch of trade or manufacture”. I realise that language is constantly developing, but why do the definitions of some words need to be changed when English, which has such a massive vocabulary compared with most other languages, has plenty of more appropriate words to choose from?

Those working in medicine and the arts may well be industrious, but that does not make them industries!

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