We need our border bubble right now. We should not have been deprived of it. Who did that? Our area is not full of COVID-19. It was months ago that I suggested a bubble around Melbourne to protect us from them. That would have given us north and south of the Murray River freedom to live and shop and educate our children and work in our own area.

So far as I am aware, the area in which I live and expect to be able to move about in is in lockdown since 31 March and the only mention I have heard of coronavirus contact has been of three people who were in voluntary lockdown in Lavington, and who have now been confirmed as free.

As a mother and daughter, I am particularly concerned for Mrs Lambert. Did those who refused her application for access to her mother look into the circumstances she faces?

I was born in Albury, my home has always been in Albury. Yet I have hundreds of seventh cousins living in Victoria, just a few kilometres away, many of whom I don't even know. Are those people who refused to even consider her application aware that Lambert is an Albury name? Even in my childhood, I can remember often reading about Alderman Lambert in The Border Morning Mail. Yes, I was an early reader and I had a father who would explain anything I didn't understand.

Should we secede and form a separate state?

I've always been alarmed at some of the comments from right-wing commentators and politicians.

However, during the present COVID-19 crisis, they have taken on a particular worrying tone.

Liberal MP Craig Kelly stated that Dan Andrews should be imprisoned for blocking use of hydroxychloroquine as the treatment of the virus.

This is despite his own government's medical taskforce officially not recommending it. Of course Craig is notoriously anti-science, hence his stance on climate change, but he does have Donald Trump and Clive Palmer in his corner.

More concerning are the comments of Andrew Bolt. He recently stated that our economy is being destroyed "to save aged care residents from dying a few months earlier".

Now, when people compare current events to Nazi Germany, it usually means an abuse of language, however Bolt's comments eerily echo the Nazi euthanasia program, (a euphemism for killing people) aimed at eliminating those with mental and physical disabilities that were a financial burden on society.

In times of crisis, it seems the true nature of these right wing zealots is plain to see and it's frightening.

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