Letters to the editor: Enforcement of masks on buses needed in Rotorua

More enforcement is needed of mask-wearing on buses, a reader says. Photo / Andrew Warner

OPINION

During the present level 2 alert conditions, passengers are required to wear masks on buses.

However, there is resistance to this in Rotorua. On local buses, drivers report some passengers refuse to do this and will not wear one if provided by the driver.

How else can this be enforced? Drivers even get abused. Prosecutions are needed.

Drivers are getting a hard time. Some high school pupils are not wearing masks as required.

Many passengers do wear masks.

Alan Lord
Rotorua

Population problem

The population of our planet, back in 1950, was approximately 2.5 billion people.

Today it is well over 7.5 billion. Clearly, something needs to be fixed - soon.

If the countries of the world were to unite, sensibly, feeding that number of people should not be a problem, however, greed, warmongering and bad management means that is out of the question.

We are shown very sad adverts every short while on the TV about millions of starving people - children, and this is very sad.

I love children, and in an ideal world every family should have several, however, to encourage large families is a very bad scheme, the world cannot support them.

With this in mind, surely, along with the vast amounts of food, should we not give vast amounts of contraceptives, encourage and make them available to every family, especially in more deprived areas?

Jim Adams
Rotorua

Open the fountains

Otago University's Professor of Public Health, Michael Baker, has recently advised that Delta is mainly transmitted through the air and not really transmitted via hard surfaces.

Given this new information, Tauranga City Council should allow drinking fountains to operate again.

Even without Baker's insight, the logic of keeping drinking fountains closed at alert level 2 is flawed.

If the council allows public toilets to open at alert level 2, surely drinking fountains should also be able to be used given people touch toilet doors a lot more than drinking fountains.

Adrian Knowles
Matua, Tauranga

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