Letters - Monday January 25 2021

MPs get better meal deal than pupils
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Readers of The Gazette may be aware that the Government has decreed that the budget per child for free school meal replacement parcels is £15.20 PER WEEK.

What readers may not know is that the MPs who approved this are entitled to subsidised meals in the House of Commons dining room.

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They can start with pressed gammon and leek terrine with pickled white cabbage with peppercorn mayo on sourdough toast.

Then they can gorge on a chargrilled rib eye steak with thick cut chips, tomato, mushrooms and Béarnaise sauce followed by prune, orange and Armagnac bread and butter pudding.

For this they pay the princely sum of £13.25 out of a salary of £81,932 per annum, plus expenses.

Some of them even have the brass neck to criticise Marcus Rashford for being wealthy!

John Prance

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virus

Let’s just get on with this

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The policy of locking down goes on and on. Meanwhile people with illnesses other than the virus are suffering, as are businesses, and people who are obeying the rules are stuck indoors.

There was an exercise in 2016 in which we were supposed to be preparing for another virus invasion called Cygnus. This seems to have been overlooked by Mrs May, possibly due to the disgraceful squabbling over Brexit.

Different reasons have been given for the delay in implementing a plan.

Various newspaper columnists have been scathing over all sorts of things about the current situation, some of which are not very reassuring to people like me when they say that it mainly affects old people or those who have underlying causes.

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As there are still a lot of people who don’t take this seriously, I believe the media should place information in their commercial breaks and in print, telling people how it is spread, how it can be contained, and although we see the signs for masks, distance and hand washing, the reasons why. A good way to show this would be something like the advert by the NHS, showing the green vapour coming out of mouths and noses.

We can’t always wash our hands in the likes of supermarkets but we can use an antivirus gel or spray.

Wearing a mask protects others and they protect you by wearing one.

If everybody obeyed the rules then there would be no need for lockdown eventually. Unfortunately, all governments have been very slow in restricting movement and testing.

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Bars, cafes and places like zoos have spent thousands in putting in place safety measures and they are being punished by these lockdowns.

Let’s start obeying the rules, think of others and get this over with.

Sam Norris

Blackpool

Environment

Ban the sale of Chinese lanterns

It’s not so much the children that need educating about the dangers of Chinese lanterns, it’s the adults that buy them that need it too. It’s much easier to ban the sales of these horrible objects than to apply common sense.

Jarvis Browning

via email

politics

One day in and it looks better

The Biden administration has made one big change already by appointing scientists to science positions.

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Now it will be: Vaccinations not anti-vaccinators; Astronomers not astrologers; Science nor seances; Climate change scientists not climate change deniers.

And none of the appointments seem to be family members.

And now Dr Fauci can present the science without fear.

One day in and the world already looks better.

Dennis Fitzgerald

via email

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