Preventative health measures

Living with COVID

LIVING under COVID, families have started to spend more time with each other, relationships are restored, hands are now super clean and ordinary people use more hand sanitisers than those in the medical profession.

Smile, COVID-19 has taught us to live simple lives, to truly appreciate who really matters, to go back to the basics and to live more cautiously.

All we can do now is to be united together, to remain positive, pray and believe for the better. May God bless us all.

M S KALECA

Nakasi, Nausori

Text messages

WHILE I appreciate the swift messages by the NDMO via text on Saturday, January 8, 2022, Fijians are being reminded to “prepare you and your family from cyclones, make sure to have an emergency kit, contacts and stay updated with the latest weather advisories from authorities”.

Question I would like to ask, since many were without work and finance from April, 2020 until to date, who will buy or supply the many hundred thousand families here in the West with emergency kits? Very easy for you to say it.

What is the purpose of that budget support from New Zealand and Australia during any crisis?

JIOJI M CAKACAKA Tadra-Votualevu, Nadi

TIME and again, people are reminded of preventative health measures to be taken after disaster strikes.

The recent flooding has caused lot of damage to essential infrastructure where the quality of food and water will not be up to standard.

Majority of the cities and towns faced the wrath of flooding in a very short time.

The practice of good hygiene measures is vital. People are at high risk to water and food borne illnesses.

People’s movement in contaminated environment can lead to communicable diseases.

All should be vigilant to take necessary preventative steps to avoid any outbreak of diseases.

Little good hygiene the most.

ROUHIT KARAN SINGH

Lautoka practices matters

Thank you good Samaritans

I EXPRESS my gratitude and appreciation to the good Samaritans who reached out to evacuation centres with food, water and other essential needs.

Your kindness during the recent flood is highly appreciated.

I also thank good Samaritans such as Allen “Unkol” Lockington and his right hand Navneet “Central Engineer” Ram for being on the move and assisting needy families and schoolchildren. Allen and Navneet (TD as Allen calls him) you are champions.

Your assistance has made life easy for the families who were affected by the pandemic!

Allen and Navneet are not politicians, but ordinary humanitarians who have Fiji at heart.

Like the duo, Lautoka businessman Raymond Singh is also thanked for his support and charity work in Lautoka! At least you guys are doing something positive to help Fijians.

These acts will be remembered by many!

RAJNESH ISHWAR LINGAM

Nadawa, Nasinu

We deserve better

IT was like we were on a roller-coaster while experiencing the impacts of the cyclone since the power was fluctuating at every short interval.

It was not a good feeling obviously. I believe this is a common practice most times when cyclones approach.

However, the impacts of power outages start way before the cyclone arrives.

The effects of power blackouts are more intense than the impacts of cyclones at times.

I believe this was not the case before as only when a cyclone made landfall, such actions were taken.

This is not funny and people do get affected and frustrated.

I am sure EFL can do better.

We, the people of Fiji, deserve better. KIRTI PATEL

Lautoka

Penalties and fines

FAIYAZ Koya, the Minister for Commerce, Trade, Tourism and Transport, has been given the task to announce penalties on behalf of the FijiFirst Government in the absence of his leader.

While talking to a group of taxidrivers at Lautoka, I could feel the distaste and disagreement of Koya’s announcement among the group.

One of them cited a market vendor who was fined $250 for not wearing a mask properly.

Don’t need a scientist to know where this group will cast their votes.

DAN URAI

Lautoka

Gun violence

I AGREE with Arvind Mani that “we should be grateful” that unlike America “we are safe from gun violence” (FT 14/1).

But we must not forget our gun violence of another kind: the coup kind and the human suffering and misery it produces. We forget at our own peril. Eternal vigilance is the price for freedom, human rights and the rule of law.

In short, of democracy over tyranny. RAJEND NAIDU

Sydney, Australia