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Dear Editor,
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Morning of lock down announcement when to do my weekly shop and not knowing of the announcement. What a shock on arriving at Bribie Woolworths. Not a basket or trolley in sight, too wet to go hunting so lugged my three bags around and just got a few things on my list. At 70 I could not carry too much. No social distancing at all, just a frenzy of selfish and ignorant people showing no respect to others, though I did get one lovely young lady ask if she could help me. It was bedlam and I can only hope that it was not the locals that were being so inconsiderate. Of course, again with the toilet rolls and that was enough for me to let go with some comments about not knowing there was a gastric outbreak on the island. Then to the car to put item in the boot, only to be hit in the back by the mirror of a car that could not wait to find a car park. By this time, I was nearly in tears and in despair of how some humans are acting in this world at a time that should bring more compassion and consideration of others. Get a grip people.
R. Cooper Dear Editor,
The Morton Bay Regional Council have cut down 14 trees in the walkway next to our property at 60 Kakadu Circuit, Banksia Beach without consultation with us or any of the residents. This action has depleted my property of privacy, shade, bird life and has also devalued my property. I am absolutely gutted. The council instructions, because of the flood requirements when we built our home, was to build our block up 800cm. We followed their instructions and our home is situated higher than the surrounding homes. Removal of the trees does not allow me any privacy from 3 of my neighbours. I am looking into their windows and they into mine. My wife and I are feeling very vulnerable in our own home and are outraged at the Council’s actions. B.Stuart
Dear Editor,
Immunisation & Vaccines I’m not interested in debating (with reader Mr Alan Blake or anyone else) the political game-playing of the W.H.0. Or its woeful “fiddle while Rome burns” performances during the Covid crisis of the last 18 months. My “beef” in raising the issue of irresponsible “antivaxxers” is/was their denial of the successes of medical science, over past decades and generations, in proving the value and huge benefits in the saving and/or prolonging of millions of human lives by the development of vaccines and the pioneering of immunisation, world-wide. The anti-vaxxers’ opposition to vaccination, per se (and perennially) is Stone Age stuff! I don’t think anyone disputes that any vaccine aimed at blocking any potentially lethal disease (or illness) must be properly tested and approved before being released for private or public vaccination, as Alan points out in his Letter. But on the basis of worldwide evidence over the past 100 + years, we all owe our medical scientists a huge debt for the lives saved by vaccines and vaccination regimes they have pioneered. And I, for one, will be ready to put my arm out, for a jab, when a properly tested and approved anti-Covid vaccine is ready for public release……hopefully, sooner rather than later.
Col Walker.
