I don’t think the idea we should report a neighbour via a phone number is really what Islanders are about.
We don’t know why a neighbour goes out, or why they need to visit someone. Suppose a neighbour called for help, needs medical assistance with something. It seems using a snitch line is underhanded, like spying or an opportunity to get one over on a person one doesn’t like.
This is a policy that could set neighbour against neighbour.
Instead we should have a help line to report neighbours in dire straits.
I suspect there are many people in need of help, hungry, frightened and needing assistance. Reporting neighbours to the authorities was practiced in Nazi Germany during the Second World War. That, folks, is how a police state begins, so please refuse to accept or use the snitch line.
F. Ben Rodgers,
Abram-Village