COVID-19 - AND SOCIAL DISTANCING

SOCIAL DISTANCING

24 June 2020


Re: space between people in public places

My partner and I are in our 90s and we live in Preston. On Tuesday afternoon, 23 June 2020, we had to go to a doctors' clinic in High Street, Northcote and we went by taxi.
We were at the clinic for about an hour and when we were finished there we knew we would have to walk down to Northcote Plaza where there is a taxi rank, because there was no hope of hailing one in High Street at 4.15 in the afternoon.

If the government and the police think they will control the spread of the virus, all they need to do is look at the people walking around the streets of Northcote to see that hardly anyone was taking any notice of the directive to keep the spaces between people as recommended by the health experts.

We are in the most vulnerable age group and only go out when we have to visit doctors or hospitals, other than short walks around where we live for some exercise, but if anyone walking the streets of Northcote has the virus and either of us catch it, we will be goners for sure!

Mannie De Saxe (while I am still around!)

 

 

Letter in The Age today 30 June 2020:

No wonder the numbers are climbing

I agree with Mannie De Saxe (Letters, 25/6) that social distancing in Northcote is rarely being observed.
We have been abused for asking people on the streets to observe the rules, while others flip the bird or even yell "What are you going to do about it?" No wonder numbers of cases of coronavirus are climbing.

The only way I can see that attitudes will change is a more visible police presence on foot along High Street and surrounding streets.

Jennifer Frost, Thornbury