Editor

The disproportionate treatment of North Wales in this current round of restrictions is monumentally unfair.

We are having to close our hospitality sector at 6pm and not serve alcoholic beverages in a blanket ban, one-size-fits-all policy across the whole of Wales.

How can that be fair when Gwynedd has a seven-day coronavirus case rate of 46, Ynys Môn31 and Conwy 90 per 100,000 of population - when you compare Cardiff at 475 and Swansea at 640, not to mention Merthyr Tydfil at 840 per 100,000 of population.

All these figures are based on Boris’ Moonshot program of requiring the mass testing of the population using the polymerase chain reaction or (PCR) test.

This test is not fit for purpose. It was never designed to be used in the mass way it is being used. It produces too many false positive results. The positive results are not subjected to retest to determine accuracy. Not at all acceptable practice.

The rate of false positive tests is now widely reckoned to be 0.87 per cent. Testing 100,000 people produces 870 false tests. This is not being taken into account when making the decision to have another round of Lockdown Hokey Cokey where the left hand doesn’t know if it’s in or out.

It’s about time that this test comes under some proper scientific scrutiny and properly evaluated and peer reviewed to stop our First Minister using it to completely destroy the hospitality industry in North Wales on which we depend along with agriculture for our income.

Already a large number of business have closed doors until Easter and workers have been made redundant or laid off.

Not a fun Christmas for them,I fear.

I believe this to be a largely false epidemic after the dreadful first wave.

It is Project Fear driven by people who don’t understand the nature of the tests and the data produced, all in the name of protecting the NHS.

However if the First Minister and his advisors cannot accept that they are being led by suspect data, at least have the good grace to apply a bit of logic and common sense and put us in the equivalent of the UK Tier 1.

Fred Foskett email address supplied

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