Grateful for Covid planning

I was shocked and dismayed to read this disgraceful letter. I do not understand how somebody could be so self-centred as to want to write with such venom when so exhausted. We are only enjoying this feeling of freedom because the team have worked so hard to let us have X number of days Covid-free, as you sarcastically put it.

You only have to put on the news to know how lucky we are. Businesses in Guernsey are working well, finance is doing well and the island is open for business.

This person has no empathy with those who have lost loved ones, families who are shielding, parents shielding sick children, cancer patients, heart patients, dialysis patients – the list goes on and on. Not to mention our wonderful hospital and all the staff who have worked selflessly to keep us all safe in our, as you call it, ‘I’m alright Jack’ Guernsey. This person calls these people in Guernsey the minority. It beggars belief that he/she will put their business before lives.

You say you are exhausted because you have a fear that you will have to leave, as you put it, ‘this gorgeous island’. You are obviously only here because you can make money and are worried that you won’t be making as much as you usually do. Also, you would lose more money if you had to isolate for two weeks. If you want to take your children to see their grandparents, then take them; other people are doing so and returning correctly.

The majority of people in Guernsey are very grateful to have this time to enjoy. We are able to help the businesses that have suffered so badly, the restaurants, hotels and the Guernsey staycation is a wonderful way for everyone who wants to have some semblance of holiday in our beautiful Bailiwick bubble. The hotels in Guernsey, Herm, Sark and Alderney are grateful for the patrons and they are no more expensive than hotels in the UK or on the Continent, and to dub them ‘charging exorbitant prices’ is both unkind and unnecessary.

We live on a beautiful island, filled with a community who are grateful to the team who have pulled us through this pandemic so far. Grateful for their future planning and the expertise of Dr Brink, without whom we would have been ‘up the Little Russel without a paddle’. We are ‘Guernsey Together’; some are struggling, but mostly everyone is trying to help one another. We are helping the other islands in our Bailiwick, Herm, Sark and Alderney, to survive too.

ANNE-MARIE

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