Letters to the editor: Dear Government, keep MIQ away and 'give us a break'

A lone cyclist passes the Rydges MIQ facility on Fenton St during lockdown. Photo / Andrew Warner

Once again, the Government is eyeing Rotorua for more MIQ facilities.

Merepeka Raukawa-Tait is right - we do not want any more of these facilities in our city.
They need to choose other areas. Why do they keep needing them in Rotorua?

This time, I am not just saying that they bring no economy to Rotorua and where would visitors go - that is if we ever get any again. Many people are now saying they don't want to come here.

This time, I am saying no more in Rotorua for the sake of the residents' wellbeing.

We are annoyed and depressed that we are having to fight the Government time and again, for our wellbeing.

What with Covid lockdown and our city turning into an eyesore, I believe our residents are feeling dejected and depressed.

We need things to brighten up our city, not more MIQ hotels and motels, or MSD housing.
I hope this time the council puts its foot down and says enough is enough.

As Raukawa-Tait said: "Bugger off" and go elsewhere.

Give us a break.

Viv Radley
Rotorua

Cartoon offensive

I have to take exception to the cartoon making fun of desperate people in a desperate situation, especially the bombing of mostly innocent people (Opinion, August 28).

Have you no respect, especially for any family members in New Zealand watching it?

Gavin Muir
Springfield

Criticism of Government's virus response unhelpful

I am growing increasingly annoyed at the so-called experts from other political parties telling the Labour Party and the Prime Minister where they have gone wrong and are going wrong.

Whichever party, or parties, had been in power at this time would have had to learn the hard way, taking advice from the same health people, and inevitably making some good calls and some bad calls as the virus progressed.

Nobody in the world has got the response to this threat correct by any means, but then nobody in the world has ever had to do this before, so all of the responses are new, with lots of learning to be done.

At one stage, some of these "experts" wanted our borders open to admit all, I wonder what they think about that opinion now? It only took one case from New South Wales to snap our complacent bubble.

And as well as this erroneous and unhelpful criticism, it is easy to say anything when you know that you are not making the decisions so your comments have no actual consequences.

Lots of these statements also prolong our lockdowns by waking up the idiots in the population who will believe anything, especially if a national figure such as a politician is making them.

Alister Blair
Tauranga

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