Closures devastating lives on so many levels
I HAVE been loath to get into this stoush about border closures but enough is enough!
Ms Palaszczuk and Doctor Young, both of you can put food on the table, provide for your family, pay a mortgage, electricity bills put petrol in your government cars and even afford private health insurance. Not all of us can.
As for Queenslanders travelling in Queensland, that’s great if you have a job.
The Gold Coast survives on two main industries – tourism and real estate. Believe what you read about how well real estate is going but tourism on the other hand is dying.
The helicopters are tucked away in their pyjamas because there is no demand, the streets of Surfers and Southport are littered with ‘for lease’ signs, the SeaWorld ferry and Hopo pass by with no one on them while the streets are baron. Yesterday at 11.30am crossing the GC Hwy there were no cars, again at 12.30pm none again. You can stand in the middle of Main Beach Pde on a weekend and not see a car for 30 seconds. In May even the whales were stuck on the border, why bother (no one was here to applaud them!)
Ms Palaszczuk, rather than seeking photo opportunities ... walk the streets and see for yourself what you are doing.
Many retirees want the borders to remain closed but please look beyond ‘your bubble’ ... it is your grandchildren and great grandchildren’s welfare at risk here.
The hypocrisy of these border bubbles is beyond comprehension. My brother can come from Sydney to Ballina – desperately wanting to see our 90-year-old mother – and she can go down to see him but he can’t come to the GC. Where’s the sense is in that?
Speaking of the elderly, my mother, a WWII veteran widow, was attending a lunch on Wednesday and taking another 90-yearold from a Southport Nursing home. These women are courageous, resilient, strong females. After dressing up excited to be going out my mother’s friend was told she could not go. In tears, she called my mother. How does that make you feel when we have no cases that cannot be traced? These wonderful women will be gone soon and this is the remaining days of their lives.