UNTIL recently we heard endless criticism of the NHS Covid tracking app because it it was bot doing the job it was designed to do – notify people if they had had close contact with someone who proved to have been infected.

Now it seems that the app is being criticised for working too well.

We’ve seen the same thing with the government’s Covid ‘traffic light system’.

The government was castigated for not acting quickly enough to close our borders to travellers from India and is now being criticised for being too hasty to tighten restrictions on arrivals from France and the Balearic Islands.

The government us in the classic situation of being damned if it dies and damned if it doesn’t.

And I am fed up with hearing British holidaymakers like those forced to return from The Balearic Islands at the end of last week when the Covid situation changed, moaning and whining when they have only themselves to blame.

Unless they’ve been living on another planet for the last 18 months they cannot have been unaware that disruption to their holiday plans was a strong possibility – but they chose to ignore the warnings and go ahead anyway.

ROBERT READMAN
Norwich Avenue West, Bournemouth