Today when my daughter Jade did the shopping the centre was crowded, making "social distancing" impossible and there were families arriving in their caravans and shopping in the supermarkets that are already struggling to keep up supplies to locals. When did we become such a selfish, ignorant nation.?

I paid $7 for a lettuce in Woolies. Don't tell me that is down to the fires. They are grown in raised beds covered over.

The Shoalhaven Mayor's messaging on visitors staying away is not strong enough. Local and state politicians should be telling it like it is: as from Tuesday, March 31, when the relevant NSW Public Health Order came into force, it is now an offence to travel to and occupy or rent a holiday home that is not your place of residence unless you need to be there for one of the various listed reasons. The Order specifically states that 'taking a holiday in a regional area is not a reasonable excuse' to leave a person's place of residence. This is crystal clear. Real estate agents should be informed that they must not take further bookings before 29 June (when the Public Health Order is due to lapse) and that they must cancel existing bookings that span this same period. The same applies to holiday homes that are privately let and to owners relocating to their holiday homes.

I am a nurse that works 5 days a week currently. As demand for nursing staff increases, my hours could increase. I go grocery shopping once a week, sometimes once a fortnight. When I go shopping the essential items such as toilet paper are never available. This issue is increasing the amount of trips required to try and find essential items which increases people's risk of picking up bugs such as coronavirus.

For some years the intersection of the Princes Highway and Jervis Bay Road has been the subject of great attention particlarly the main highway's ability to divert and accept traffic from Jervis Bay Road.

There is only one commonsense and safe solution: the overpass as promoted by Liz Tooley. This must be constructed to allow all vehicles to access and leave Jervis Bay Road without any possibility of a collision with any other vehicle.

I made a point of this during a presentation regarding the Shaolin development but that body was not interested in such a plan.

Having driven from Melbourne to Nowra on countless occasions over the past 50 years, with my southern drive being the Princes Highway and returning via the Hume Highway and watching the growing number of overpasses to all manner of towns on the Hume and being aware of the lives saved as a result, I see this as the only solution to this growing problem.

An overpass will not only be a safe method but will allow greater vehicle freedom as vehicles will not be required to slow to a point of impeding traffic flow. A roundabout or traffic lights on this major highway, either here or at Wool Road should never be considered. There is sufficient room for an overpass on both roads and I must ask, why have we not had any response to such an obvious and commonsense solution? The cost of construction will be offset by the need not to have police, ambulances and two trucks blocking the way when attending collisions.