I am no doctor, just a retired person with a little common sense and a few hard lessons under the belt. The way I see it, Covid-19 is like a world-wide bush fire.

If we all valiantly try to dowse this fire and only manage to quench 95 per cent of it and leave five per cent untouched, it will just flare up again.

It's got to be 100 per cent vaccination world-wide to succeed against Covid. We all tend to complain about how Covid has limited our lifestyles, but in a way we are lucky.

If this epidemic occurred 150 years ago, the chances are the human race would have been wiped out. In this modern era, we have the medical technology to combat Covid plus world-wide communications for the world's medical people to talk to one another.

It's a big bonus. We have to accept the situation and patiently wait it out.

And above all, be kind to one another.

Ken Jones, Katikati.