Letters for Friday November 19, 2021

Dear Editor,

The plan Serena, is to be vaccinated. By doing that you are less likely to die, less likely to get really sick, less likely to require hospitalisation, less likely to require a ventilator, less likely to put those unable to be vaccinated due to age or vulnerability at risk of catching the virus off you, and less likely to infect health professionals tasked with looking after you. Considerably less likely.

Please get vaccinated.

It’s ok to change your mind

(Name and address supplied)

Is that not the reality of what is happening in the world today? (‘Expect 2400 infections, 100 hospitalisations and ten deaths when Covid-19 arrives’: TMO, November 17).

The measures of prevention are there and will always be there, but until a major cure is found, then the focus of normality can begin. Stay safe everyone always. And as a country built on God’s love, we can only look unto our Lord for a cure right now.

Eiao T Baniani

(Facebook)

I guess we will have to wait and see what will happen, yes we will still get infected even if we are vaccinated or not, yes we will still die from Covid even if we are vaccinated or not, yes we all can spread the virus once we get it vaccinated or not. I guess the real question is, who will suffer the most, the vaccinated or the non-vaccinate.

We all have our opinions that we are all entitled to and despite our choices to be vaccinated or not, we are all in this together. We all loved each other before Covid, and I still love you all now – that will never change.

Pa Matapo

(Facebook)

Editor’s note: According to PolitiFact, the award-winning fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter, vaccinated people with breakthrough infections can also spread the disease. But most people who get Covid-19 are unvaccinated, and fully vaccinated people who are infected are less likely to suffer a serious illness. Studies show that vaccinated people are eight times less likely to be infected and 25 times less likely to be hospitalised or die from Covid-19 than unvaccinated people, according to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).

Dog problem

Sick of reading about this subject over and over again because nothing gets done. The answers have been given to all those who can make the change but typically nothing gets done.

I’m not blaming the Police they have enough to do. The Commissioner and who you are responsible to probably should be held responsible for all and any dog attacks on humans and livestock.

Kevin George

(Facebook)

Traffic congestion

During the morning traffic rush hour there seems to be traffic congestion from up towards the Tupapa meeting house into town. I was walking towards town this morning (yesterday) around 8am, and once I caught up to the queue of traffic, I was actually walking faster than the traffic was moving.

This problem could be partly solved by having the traffic flow moving faster by having the ropes removed, and repair the potholes at the entrances, and the exits of the temporary Empire bridge, bridge.

ICI (Infrastructure Cook Islands) or the contractor should have this repair work done. The traffic flow was ruined using taxpayers’ funds, surely the taxpayers are entitled to have this problem rectified by using the same funds.

Kevin Cook

Cook’s Buses

Online comments

Flight schedule

I’m not confused, when you book be prepared for flights to be cancelled. Its Covid and the warning is visible when booking. – Maao Terehu A Onohea

All they need to do is to contact Air New Zealand. – Parau Williams

We have been stuck on the Cooks from March 2021 till July 2021, the best! – Anneke Thoen

Being stuck in the Cook Islands wouldn’t be on my list of worst-case scenarios, I guess it depends on their circumstances though. – Mark Giacobbe

Enjoy the stay in Rarodise, I would love to be stuck back home then in lockdown in NZ. – Amiria Kiria

Hi all if you read the article all we had to do was rebook it is all sorted! We are perfectly happy and living the dream. – Dayna Story.