The Covid-19 vaccination is a lifesaver but some don't want it. Photo / Getty Images
The Covid-19 vaccination is a lifesaver but some don't want it. Photo / Getty Images
Listen up, people who don't want to get the jab, what is your problem?
Do you want to die from a fear of a needle? That is what may happen if you don't get vaccinated.
The vaccination is not having the coronavirus pumped into your body, it is something thatwill trigger your own immune system into fighting off something that may otherwise kill you - painfully, alone, and in a fight, you could lose. Is this what you want?
I gave blood - 75 pints, and every month for the last nine years I have had injections into my eye.
The vaccination is painless, and once it is done you then have a damn good chance of surviving, not only that but you will have made those you care about safer.
Go for it. A couple of minutes that may save your life!
Jim Adams Rotorua
Shout-out to the lab staff
As a long-retired medical laboratory scientist, my heartfelt thanks go to those people doing the hard yards and working long hours, processing the thousands of Covid-19 tests pouring into laboratories all over the country.
The technology now in use was the stuff of reference labs in my day and we are fortunate to have the tests so rapidly introduced and now widely available.
Television news items regularly feature specimen collection and vaccine administration but show only old stock footage of laboratory action.
One newspaper published a report by the president of the NZ Institute of Medical Laboratory Sciences but, other than that, I have seen nothing about this vital service.
Ronald Mayes Rotorua
Strong economy has a cost
The Government tells us the economy is going gangbusters. Well, of course it is.
Eighteen months ago, the Labour Government gave itself the ability to borrow (print) $100 billion.
It actually borrowed (printed) $60b, of which it spent $54b. The remaining $6b will soon vanish.
Any economy that has $60b thrust into it in one year is surely going gangbusters.
Age-wise, I have run my race, but I feel sorry for my grandchildren and their children because they are the ones who are going to have to pay back the debt in the years to come.
Maureen J Anderson Tauranga
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