General News
7 April, 2025
COVID: Mixed emotions
A NEW home had been purchased and moving day set only for plans to be frustrated by sudden COVID lockdowns. That’s what faced Kirsty Rose five years ago when COVID fears gripped the world and Victoria had the world’s harshest and longest...
A NEW home had been purchased and moving day set only for plans to be frustrated by sudden COVID lockdowns.
That’s what faced Kirsty Rose five years ago when COVID fears gripped the world and Victoria had the world’s harshest and longest lockdowns.
This week, Kirsty said: “Lucky us. We purchased our new home just before COVID. But moving day was during COVID.
“We had to have papers to travel. We had to stop at the police check with every car load of goods. But we love being here and appreciate this beautiful town, the town we call home. Love Inglewood.”
Terry Kellogg, of Llanelly, has been among Loddon Herald readers to share experiences on the anniversary of the first Government-imposed lockdowns.
He recalls being unable give his mother the support she needed as lockdowns kept families apart.
“They weren’t good at all memories. I wasn’t allowed to travel to help my mother in need due to violence, they never cared.
“I was so lucky to get a nurse who went above and beyond to help and support her in her own time, taking her shopping and organising more support for her until I was allowed to travel and all I got told was I would be fine if I travelled two hours to help her.”
David Hewitt said: “My enduring memories of the COVID lockdowns are driving into Kyneton and being stopped at a police roadblock to make sure that I wasn’t one of the unwanted people from Melbourne.
“Then when I went to Melbourne on the train to look after my 94-year-old mother, I was the only passenger on the train and I arrived to a deserted Southern Cross station,” he said.
“When I read in the media that elderly citizens were dying in nursing homes without their children being able to say goodbye, I knew that I could never forgive that government.”
Amanda Goodman, looking back on restrictions, said: “The only virus was the divide in our society.” She said: “I don’t work for the government and I refused to discriminate against people,
“People are openly talking about their vaccine injuries now, their family members who died suddenly, the family members and friends with turbo cancers, the heart conditions.”