Here is my writing for W6 T3 and our topic is about whether we should open the border. My opinion was that we shouldn't and here is my writing to defend that statement.
NL: To persuade
RT: Add a conclusion
Should the NZ government open the borders to other countries? With what's currently happening, I don’t think so. Here are some reasons why.
First of all, we already have lots of cases. We shouldn’t open our borders because considering the state we are in, we don’t want more cases. We are getting lots and lots of new cases everyday and people coming in from other countries and then they will spread it to us, then we will spread it to everyone, repeat. Also if it is the delta variant, then it can spread to 5 people. Then those people will spread it to 5 other people which is already a total of 25 cases.
Secondly, other countries have made a mistake opening the border. The UK has opened their borders to give “freedom” to their country but it will just get rid of their freedom. Currently, have the 5th most covid cases. The government has stated that “ we shouldn’t treat Covid-19 like the flu” and that is true. Because if we do otherwise, then we’ll have double the cases we are getting everyday.
Finally, it would overwhelm all the health care workers. If we were to open our borders, there would be too many cases. Which means that hospitals will be all clogged up and the essential workers (the nurses and doctors) would be overwhelmed with how many people there are and they will overwork themselves, which is very harmful to their mental health.
Here are the reasons why we shouldn't open the border. It is just too much of a risk due to all of these unfortunate things, (which are most likely going to happen) if we open the borders.
I enjoyed this activity because it was fun asking for my siblings opinion on this topic.
Should NZ open the borders?
Kia ora Nic,
ReplyDeleteThis is a great piece of writing. I like how you included some information about the Delta variant spreading a lot quicker in the community. It looks like you have done some research to support the points you have made.
I think you could still improve how you write a conclusion. A conclusion should communicate how important your ideas/point of view are by summarising or rephrasing the points you made.
For example: In conclusion, I strongly disagree that New Zealand should open the border again. We cannot risk having more COVID cases spread across our country and overwhelm our health care workers more.