Why is it so hard to get our Covid jab?
I too have tried for nine days to get a booking for a Covid-19 vaccine shot, by email and phone with no luck.
Yesterday, a machine voice answered the 0800 line saying I had 100 people in line in front of me so I waited.
When a lady answered, she told me I wasn’t on her list and asked if I was in Auckland. No, Whanga¯ rei, still, no, she said, I wasn’t on her list.
I tried later, armed with my NHI number only to be told this time that their systems can’t book for Northland people.
Why answer the 0800 number then? They were very nice, said they were sorry but they couldn’t help me.
So I wait and wonder why it has to be this hard?
S.Daumiller Onerahi
Bling bling council
While this District bling bling Council has embarked on the grandiose building programme — more borrowing, more debt, more rates (poor ratepayers), the less glamorous infrastructure falls way behind.
There are scant plans for an expanded sewerage system to cope with the big population growth. Overflows into the harbour will increase during winter (poor harbour).
Sewage and stormwater overflows into our picturesque harbour is an
anachronism of a bygone era. The Whanga¯rei District Council should be pumping sewage inland, using the nutriments of treated sewage and stormwater to advance the growth of radiator forests, (not harbour, mangrove and silt). Such change requires a different intellect.
The financial return of forests in
Emission Trading Schemes would see a sensible ratepayer return on investment and save our harbour from unnatural and increasing pollution.
Also redirecting ratepayer funds from the excessive cost and debt in the present glamorous bling bling, noreturn building programme.
R Syron Land Owners’ Coalition Whanga¯rei
Labour’s logic In one breath the Labour Finance Minister Grant Robertson grants a near 100 per cent (approx $300m more) increase in the pay cheque to the Reserve Bank. In the next breath he imposes a three-year pay rise freeze on public sector workers, citing the need to rein in public debt. Where’s the logic?
Brian Mclachlan Onerahi
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