SIR, – I would like to highlight that the type of control to manage this pandemic comes from China, shown on television worldwide.

They isolated everyone and closed factories, shops and businesses.

‘Controlling everyone in the community’ is the communist way of doing things.

My experience in the past from a young age in the Netherlands was: Isolate the sick people – families. There was a pamphlet on the window and front door from local government informing people of the risk of the disease until it was no longer.

So everyone knew who they were – visitors did not enter and neighbours and the whole street knew. Kids did not play together and deliveries were left at the door.

Yet, life went on, as normal, with businesses and factories open.

People could get together and lean on each other, not being isolated and getting depressed as is now the situation – they went to a live performance and danced and sang along.

Now, we do not know who is sick because of privacy reasons.

Instead, the whole community is isolated from each other, businesses are closed, travelling prohibited or restricted, the economy destroyed.

In this way, everyone is controlled by the government, the communist way. The whole fabric of society is destroyed. 

People need handouts to survive instead of being able to earn an income. 

People become dependent on the government instead of being able to realise his or her own destiny.

Please, people, open up your eyes, we have come under a communist type of control. Vote the current government out, be in charge of your own destiny and have a healthy, happy lifestyle. 

Astrid Maria van den Akker-Luttmer

Warracknabeal

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