I'm 72-years-old. I try to keep myself safe from Covid-19 with social distancing and sanitising.

If I'm unlucky enough to ever contract this virus then that is fate.

However, if I was to contract from a source directly attributable to an individual who has ignored or broken any isolation controls that they, by law, are expected to adhere to, I would expect them to be charged with reckless endangerment causing injury in the same way that a dangerous driver is charged. If I was to die then they should be charged with manslaughter.

We should be informed fully as to penalties being applied. Currently we have a woman who went to the extreme of climbing fences to break her isolation. She obviously does not respect her fellow New Zealanders and should be made an example of.

The government has the power to put a law in place as an example to prospective rule breakers and to show the world New Zealand means business.

My suggestion is to isolate rule breakers in a prison cell, not a comfortable hotel. Prison food, one hour exercise per day, one hour phone access per day.

We as New Zealanders have already shown the rest of the world we mean business. It's time to follow through with what we started.

Consequences with transparency. Proud to be a Kiwi.

J Morton, Welcome Bay