Travellers who moved onto an open space in Medway have claimed to council officials they have Covid-19.
Well, of course they have! But surely that won't fool our dedicated
Cllr Adrian Gulvin (Con) ...
So often these days, descriptive of more than simple party allegience.
...who represents Walderslade, explained Medway Council and police had visited the encampment to complete welfare checks.
The travellers' welfare, that is!
He added: "Officials were told a couple of them have Covid. The ward councillors have been in contact with the Director of Public Health to arrange for testing and inoculations for them.
"Until it is proven they haven't got the virus we cannot move them on, where it could be spread throughout different locations. That would be totally irresponsible.
"The first stage of the legal process on eviction is the welfare checks, but everything has to go on hold until we can determine the Covid status. That's why urgent work is happening with the public health department."
Really? You seem to have a very different view of what, exactly, constitutes urgency.
But one resident claims to have seen some people at the site continue to come and go and raised fears that this could still potentially spread any Covid-19.
The resident, who asked not to be named, added: "I haven't seen much evidence of social isolation. It surely must be easy to get lateral flow tests delivered as soon as possible as we're worried about the risks to health of people nearby."
Given the government has been foisting them on absolutely everyone it can, you'd think so, wouldn't you?
He added: "We've experienced noise with people arguing among themselves and local dog walkers who use the field for recreational purposes.
"Their dog is attacking local dogs and the field is no longer available to use without feeling intimidated. We are concerned more will join them, making even more noise and mess."
Post an armed officer near the park, and if the traveller's dog starts a fight, shoot it.
Urgent is a concept no local council I have ever lived under has been able to understand. They all seem to move at their own pace and normally entirely for their own benefit. Will more travelers join them? Of course they will after all it's a free site and when you leave the council tax payer will pick up the bill for any mess they have left. I thought we had a new law about such things but as always that only applies to the settled community who exist purely to fund the council and pay for everyone else.
ReplyDeleteIf the caravan utilising nomadic travellers claim to have covid then, in the interests of public health and safety, they should be quarantined. Fence them off for 10 days, and only let them out after that time if they have produced negative results on the 2nd and 8th days. To do anything else is not only an affront to the local taxpayers who pay for these numpties, but show that these parasites are being given special privileges not available to anyone else. That, of course, is an offence under racial equality legislation.
ReplyDeleteNick 'em all, officer.
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"Urgent is a concept no local council I have ever lived under has been able to understand. They all seem to move at their own pace and normally entirely for their own benefit."
ReplyDeleteProbably because they make sure they don't live in the affected areas.
"...then, in the interests of public health and safety, they should be quarantined. Fence them off for 10 days, and only let them out after that time if they have produced negative results..."
If this was a real pandemic, that's what would happen!