Tim Harrington, Lennox Head
Letter contributor Richard White (letters 21/4/21) quite correctly identifies the Richmond River as an ‘upside down river’ and nowhere is this more evident than the Pimlico area.
Keith Duncan must have been fully immersed in that section of the river when he delivered his ‘Decisive handling’ letter in the same issue.
A quick reference to the COVID-19 deaths in Australia would have alerted the writer to the fact that Victoria had 820 deaths, a full 90 per cent of the Australian total.
The blame for this disgraceful mess can be fully attributed to the gross mishandling of the hotel quarantine methods used by the Andrews Government.
Had this been a building site, the Andrews Government would have been facing not industrial charges but industrial genocide charges.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
