Let’s keep going and get through this together
I HAVE been reflecting, like many of us, as we selfisolate at home. My conclusion is ‘‘we really don’t know how lucky we are’’.
Maybe, like me, you have given a thought to what our forebearers had to endure to get to Otepoti/Otago in 1848. Three long monthsplus on a sailing ship from the other side of the world. Sailing to the great unknown, not knowing if they would ever get here alive, adults and children living in cramped conditions, extreme weather conditions, nausea and other illnesses, death and despair.
They did this for you and for me, the subsequent generations.
Come on, New Zealand, we can do this together. We can go for walks, sit in our gardens and live in our homes.
Let’s work together for a better future. If this means extending our lockdown to eradicate this infection, please let’s do it with the dignity our ancestors deserve and sacrificed so much for.
Colette Ryan
Maryhill
I AM surprised that the efficacy of masks is being questioned to the point that members of the public are not being encouraged to wear them.
Recently, I saw a Covid19 video which showed a shopper in aisle 1 sneezing and hundreds of thousands of globules floating over the stacks to infect a person in aisle 2.
What would have been the number of globules floating over the aisle if the shopper in aisle 1 had been wearing a mask?
Surely far fewer, even if the mask didn’t contain the lot.
Islay Little
Opoho
I RESPOND to your article ‘‘Businesses want more certainty’’ (ODT, 15.4.20). We all want certainty. Unfortunately, it is not possible for anyone right now. It also shouldn’t be a given that the existing economic model is the best way forward, as we try to recover from Covid19.
Now is the time to make enduring positive changes at all levels. The current ‘‘economic crisis’’ is not the only crisis facing the world at this time. A new economic model needs to positively embrace changes that desperately need to be made, in order to address climate change, environmental degradation and socioeconomic disparities.
Be kind and be brave.
P. Bosshard Browne
Middlemarch ......................................
BIBLE READING: You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. — Psalms 23.5.