Covid and hope
Tonight (August 25) I saw a glimmer of hope in the Covid darkness that surrounds us. Dr Geoff Sparkes and Vince Roche, nurses and office staff were toiling away after 8pm tonight in the Moss Vale surgery and providing Covid vaccinations for 140 very grateful members of our local community. The process was run with military precision.
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Patients pre-book, walk in, QR scan, have their name ticked of the list by the receptionist, receive their Covid vaccination five minutes later, sit quietly for 15 minutes observation and out the door. A model of efficiency by dedicated local health staff.
With this level of dedication and efficiency and providing the Commonwealth come good with vaccination supplies we can all get our "suit of armour" and get back to life in the near future.
Covid vaccinations work and stop you dying or ending up in ICU gasping for breathing and hooked to a ventilator.
Please I beg you, get the jab.
Richard Hart, local paediatrician, Exeter
Covid 19 Bowral lockdown
Once again the grand town of Bowral has been deemed to continue with the NSW Government lockdown, this time until September 10.
When I last checked the region that Bowral is in, it had three cases only of Covid 19, which we are told came from doctors who gave their time to attend a hospital to assist unwell patients.
Why cannot the region be opened for it citizens that have had one or more injections of Covid 19 vaccinations. When I checked the region the NSW Government includes us in, the Shoalhaven and Southern Highlands, we had a combined total of 80 per cent of people with one or more vaccinations.
It is very simple to print out your vaccination record as proof oy your vaccinations through a government website. Being so, why do our businesses need to suffer one day more from opening. All that is needed surely, is the proof of one's double vaccination for Covid 19.
As we are one of the lowest affected regions in NSW, why are being held from normality due to beauracratic thinking that seems to be saying that we must pay for the inneficiency of those areas where the Covid 19 is out of control. It seems that in this State that all are deemed guilty of misbehaviour, when we are the best behaved in the State!
Let's have some common sense applied to assist our businesses in the Wingecarribbee region.
Glenn Giese, Bowral
Educational failure
I call on the NSW Education Minister stand down over the management of the HSC with the changes announced on Friday.
Clearly the NSW Government has failed to manage the Covid cases. Now the decision for the continuation of the HSC feels that HSC students are being used as pawns in a game to justify taking vaccines away from communities like Wilcannia.
As a parent of a Year 12 student, I do not believe students should remain in school longer than normal. Students are prepared to complete their exams now and move on. Their time at school is over. This delay negatively impacts them; emotionally, educationally and financially.
I also personally know of the negative impacts on individuals. International students who had flights booked to return home after two years abroad now can't. My own daughter had a job lined up for later November which she can not start.
The decision to delay the HSC has implications. I don't believe the needs of the students have been considered.