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    Essential when it suits

    Oct 13, 2021 4 minutes
    Ken Wilkie

    I AM CURRENTLY very disappointed. When it suits, road transport operators – specifically the driver sector – are deemed to be essential service workers. But just when it suits. COVID is a very dangerous virus. That cannot be dismissed. That those whose obligation it is to protect our society have been demonstrated to be struggling to come to grips with the best road through this pandemic cannot be ignored. It is understandable.

    However, it is also obvious that the lessons that should have been learnt from relevantly recent history have not been learnt, or worse still have been ignored. That footballers take precedence over sick kids and mourners of deceased relatives – well!

    I have been advised that the toilet fiasco

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