Trump starts trend Fashionable complaints

It seems to have started with Donald Trump, who decided not to accept the election in the US. Since then we have the prime minister of Samoa refusing to step down, and now, one of your articles outlines that a CEO is refusing to leave her role. I have read, too, that Bolsonaro of Brazil may refuse to step down if he loses an election. How bizarre, what a changed world we live in! If this trend is not nipped in the bud, then who knows what might happen next?

Jim Air, Birkenhead.

While it seems to have become fashionable to complain about the Covid19 vaccination rollout, it’s worth remembering that I and thousands of other Kiwis have choice in where we live. While I know many who have come back to New Zealand since Covid, I know of none who have left. While a recent correspondent to the Herald (July 23) claimed to have waited half an hour for his jab, the millions who have died and are still dying didn’t get the choice of having one.

As a point of interest, my vax card shows my first jab being given at 1.02pm — my appointment time that day was 1pm.

Mark Nixon, Remuera.