Letters to the editor: Getting Covid jab a fantastic experience

The vaccination service at Baypark gets a rave review from one reader. Photo / Getty Image

GettyImages-1289522230.JPG Vaccination service at Baypark. Photo / NZME

I recently went for my Covid-19 injection at Baypark. What a fantastic experience, from the plain signage on the road to guide us, to the security guard who cheerfully gave advice on directions and then into the building we went.

I cannot stress enough just what a wonderfully well-organised place to go. Every woman we met was friendly, professional, explained carefully the before-and-after information we might need to know. Then the injection itself was over in a flash and then we had to wait the 20 minutes just to make sure we were all good.

We even had a choice of refreshments and biscuits to while away the 20 minutes.

Made one proud to be a woman, as they were all quite brilliant.

Thank you so much for being able to have this injection protection, especially at Baypark.

Margaret Murray-Benge
Bethlehem

Still some gentlemen around

My wife and I are both in our late 70s and the driveway to our home is about 70m long, and we have three flowering cherry trees on the berm.

We were both there the other day with a 3m-long lopping pole to trim the trees. There were two young contractors in the street at the same time and asked us if they could help.

The job was done within 10 minutes.

It's nice to see there are some gentlemen still around in the word.

Thank you, young men.

Terry and Rose McGee
Tauranga

Our money is at risk

What is happening to our money?

We recently received new eftpos cards, ones you do not have to use other than to swipe them over the box? How stupid is that? No pin, and apparently you do not even have to hold them against the machine, anywhere near will do.

There are no chequebooks, instead we have to go online or, if you are elderly, get a relative or someone else to do it for you.

Not very safe, is it? Our money, not the banks', is at risk here.

The internet is wide open to scams - it happens daily, even the US government is attacked. So, what chance do we elderly pensioners have?

Banks were originally set up to help and serve the public, keep their money safe, invest it sensibly, and pay dividends when they use your money to invest.

Not any more, now they create money out of thin air, they have taken away our cheques and now give us cards that anyone standing near us may use. Machines have also appeared in the banks and it is time consuming and inconvenient to talk to a teller.

It is bad enough that petrol stations and supermarkets make you pay for your purchases without any help from them - what's next? Will we have to start using bitcoins as real money will disappear altogether?

Jim Adams

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