YOUR SAY: Government could not run a bath let alone a jab rollout

They couldn't run a bath properly.

Why not make masks mandatory, put vaccination hubs alongside mostly empty testing stations and even essential petrol stations, then open it up to all ages.

Theo Koroneos, Cronulla.

Now we know the Sydney lockdown is to be continued and I can't say I'm surprised. During the lockdown period when we were ALL to stay at home only going out for groceries, exercise, and medical needs, the people who didn't think the rules applied to them kept us in lockdown.

So for you all who gathered in Cooper St Reserve Engadine and any other park in The Shire - all the women who met with their kids setting up food for the day on the picnic tables and all the Friendship and family groups who gathered on the weekends, the rest of us do not thank you.

Anna Carr, Engadine

I have lived in Cronulla for 42 years.

I love the place and surf Cronulla Point daily.

I am concerned that locals who go swimming daily and drink coffees at Cronulla Pavilion on mass put the place at risk.

Go swimming, get your coffee and go home.

Jeff Gear, Cronulla.

In reply to the letter regarding COVID technology, it is hopeless that if you are an older person who does not have a smartphone or, for that matter, a mobile, forgot any help.

Woolworths want a mobile number I had to give my daughters (who lives in Alice Springs), so she gets the SMS message. And don't try and get help from a Government Department if you do not have a smartphone or a mobile. Everything is set up for a mobile service, and not all of us want to have a mobile glued to us 24/7.

Jeanette Brackstone, Bangor

I am surprised and amused to read that people believed anything that the state health minister said as valid. Unfortunately, we will be lucky to get a picture of an MRI machine in the hospital before 2024.

I believe the NSW state government has single handily done more to spread the COVID virus by its inability to do its job. Politicians who supposedly speak on behalf of NSW Health but repeatedly are unaware of any problems that occur and are more than happy to stick their face in front of a camera for any positive news are the problem.

The good news was to announce that they would build a room for the MRI, the bad news, it will be a storeroom for many years before we get it.

Maybe it's time for Brad Hazzard to do what he suggested to reporters at a news conference; MOVE ON.

Peter Long, Miranda

When taking a relative to Cronulla Mall this morning for his COVID injection, it was disappointing to see so many people not wearing or even appearing not to be carrying a mask. I thought residents of the Shire were much more considerate than this!

Barry Turner, Yowie Bay

As the COVID infection expands dramatically in NSW, is it time to develop a counter program which I will call "have needle will travel." Put simply. It means medical personnel with the ability to vaccinate get out of their clinics and go to the people. For example, nurses/paramedics could work beneath marquees in the car parks of warehouses (now identified as a primary source of positive cases), inviting workers to have their

injections during their lunch break. Other vaccinators could do house to house calls offering jabs to the elderly who cannot leave their homes because of their age. I would suggest "Nona" would welcome a jab if given to her in her lounge room. Some will ask, "but where will we get the nurses and paramedics? Many paramedics don't work with the ambulance. Bring them into the system. Also, offer extra shifts to ambulance paramedics and nurses to put more vaccines into arms. Use the SES and the Rural Fire Service resources to provide pop-up vaccination points.. i.e. marquees, tables and chairs, and patient marshalling.

John Davis, address supplied.

Hear, hear! Kelly Ryan of Engadine! But it's not just the plethora of cars; it's all the boats and caravans as well.

If people can afford a new Mercedes or Porsche SUV, why can't they afford a place with enough off-road parking for all their toys? Then there's the actual residence which seems to have been designed by graduates of the 'Screw You!' School of Architecture. Every development application informs the neighbours that the new development will "blend harmoniously with the existing streetscape" when, in fact, it sticks out like a mandrill's bum. Adding to the desecration of the Shire is the felling of trees at a rate that makes the deforestation of the Amazon look like an exercise in conservation. Council elections are in December and I'm looking for my cricket bat. Ryszard Linkiewicz, Caringbah South

I recently noticed that Sutherland Shire Council approved to increase the height allowance for building at the old Toyota site at Caringbah because if they built down into the ground, the building could sink. If this is true, would not the same increase in height above ground cause the building to sink?

Developers knew the height restrictions when they bought the site, and this should comply with no special exemptions. However, it looks like the developers did not do their pre-purchase checks to realise this was previously a mangrove swamp and high rise should not be built here. No doubt, in several years, we will have another Collaroy Beach or Mascot Tower legal problem. If developers want to increase the height above approved heights known at purchase time, the additional accommodation above this height should be solely allocated to people on social housing or in offices to new start businesses. Further to that set for the approved height buildings, let's see who applies for height increase cannot work out how the councillors cannot refer to a long-lasting song that is very true: 'Build on the Rock and not upon the Sand.' Ray Jones, Burraneer