Bisset needs evidence to back up his claims
I’m often in agreement with Bruce Bisset’s Left Hook writings but this week’s column on viruses is different.
Bisset claims that “Coronavirus is a symptom, climate change is the cause”.
Really? Where is the scientific evidence to back that statement up?
Then he tells us that the “current pandemic is only the first of a worsening cycle”.
Really? Pandemics have been around for thousands of years and they appeared well before climate change.
The logical inference is that pandemics will stop when we stop climate change. Really?
Facts please, Bruce.
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Blair Brocklehurst
Napier
Occupants fears
I would be potentially concerned at the houses of multiple occupancy in Napier, Hastings, Hawke’s Bay in the Covid-19 epidemic.
Establishments such as unregistered boarding houses, backpackers, etc.
Particularly where there are communal kitchens and bathrooms, and some of the residents are going out to their workplaces, then returning home and mingling en masse — how does that work?
I conveyed my concern to Napier City
Council, its health inspectors must be too busy to inspect them with all the restaurants closed, as they referred me to the Healthline.
Rodger Hedley
Napier
Extraordinary powers
PS to: A step too far, (Philip Ward, March 24).
I do not support the introduction of “A State of Emergency” at this point in time.
They obviously introduced this measure because they did not draft and put to Parliament the necessary law to enable the enforcement of the rules they introduced for Stage 4.
It gives the PM unprecedented powers above and beyond the requirements of Stage 4 without the need to consult the people we elected to represent us and our interests.
It smells of an attitude of “I know better than any of you”.
Its passing placed the leader of the
Opposition in an impossible position.
The graph now shows that Government, actions were too little and too late.
As an obvious electioneering offer, beneficiaries were offered a boost to their benefit, it is no more than the annual increase due on April 1. The excuse offered was that these groups would spend it and ease the high risk of people being laid off. Yeah, right!
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Philip M Ward
Napier