Farmers want the truth

IN response to Byron Burman (CP, 29/07). You say that no amount of scientific data will change the minds of people who are “anti” a wide variety of issues including, as you put it, anti-Reef concerners.

If by anti-Reef concerners you mean farmers, I can assure you that the vast majority of farmers are concerned about the health of the Reef and the rest of the environment they live and work in.

However, they want the truth. As regards “no amount of scientific data”, I would like to refer you to an article on Page 2 (CP, 28/07) which concerned observations at a Senate Inquiry being conducted in Brisbane in search of evidence that farming activities had damaged the Reef. The inquiry was trying to establish if there was a database that supported claims of widespread damage to the Great Barrier Reef.

Apparently none existed.

Vivian Wienert, Fishery Falls diseases from the view of statistics.

Approximately 150,000 daily deaths worldwide; includes cardiovascular disease 49,000, cancer 26,000, COVID-19 way down at 7500.

These figures should be looked at by governments at all levels and respond by lifting restrictions so that economies can begin to open up including air travel so that the world can return to the new normal and people can return to jobs.

Look at the numbers and let the virus run its course and enable populations to build immunities which is nature’s way which we are a part of.

Paul Schneider, Cairns North 1928: MGM’s Leo the Lion roars for the first time, in the company’s first talking motion picture, White Shadows in the South Seas.

1994: The UN Security Council approves

a possible US-led invasion of Haiti. 2016: Harry Potter fans around the world queue ahead of the release of the eighth book in the series, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the script of the play opening in London’s West End. 2018: In an attempt to reassure Australians their privacy will be protected in the My Health Record system, the federal government announces it will allow patients to delete their records after the existing opt-out period and restrict government agencies’ access to data.

2019: Former MasterChef Australia judge George Calombaris (above) apologises for underpaying staff at his restaurants $7.8 million.