A quick word

Re the Disaster for Landlords letter that talks of “private landlords who have put their hardearned savings into property”. The competition among private landlords who have leveraged equity in their house(s) with low interest rates has increased house prices dramatically. They have created an affordability crisis for first-home buyers.The rich have been getting richer at the expense of renters. Stewart Halliwell, Tawharanui.

I guess I should not be surprised in the current climate that the Prime Minister’s media groupies have failed to ask her the most important question. What is the Government’s plan if an effective Covid19 vaccine is not developed now or ever? M A Pollock, Mount Eden.

I would love to read some of the temperature records from 600 million years ago that Axel Hansen refers to. Please tell me where are they located, Axel, so I can access them and have a read. Hopefully, they are in the English language! Ian Williamson, Bucklands Beach.

I have a Samsung 5 (less than 5 years old) and I can’t download the tracing app. If the Government wants everyone to be able to be tracked they should look at another way of contract-tracing. Not everyone can afford to buy a new phone. Anne-Marie Fishburn, Long Bay.

If Winston Peters and Shane Jones are unemployed on September 20, 2020, I suggest they become college lecturers in the art of English vocabulary and elocution. They have been baffling brains for decades!

Gordon Clout, Taupo¯.

A question for the media: is there any kind of community other than “tight-knit”?

B Harvey, Kohimarama.

Jacinda Ardern has announced she will not be announcing policies before the election. Most people need more than a smiley face to vote for.

H Robertson, St Heliers.

Slowly, slowly, we should find an innovative ways of opening our country to the rest of the world. We cannot afford to shut our country for ever. Of course I am worried about my health, like others. But what I like to say is this, “health and wealth goes hand in hand”.

Mohammed Yakub, Ma¯ngere East.

How selfish and uncaring could one be to risk starting another virus epidemic by deliberately escaping managed isolation. These people don’t know how lucky they are to be here, and the least they could do is to follow the rules. Pamela Russell, O¯ ra¯kei.

The options for president of the United States appear to be a choice between two senile old men. How has a formerly great nation come to this?

G.M. Campbell, Hamilton.