Our local supermarket was over-run with long queues at all the checkouts. There was no social distancing being practiced (nor was it being enforced) with people standing shoulder-to-shoulder.

While a staff member appeared to be counting the number of customers entering the store, clearly they were either miscounting or the total allowed to enter was too high a figure.

The COVIDsafe app appears to have given people a false sense of security. It doesn't prevent you from getting the virus, it is only a containment aid once it starts spreading again.

The message that social distancing is still critical appears to have been completely lost by those engaging in a euphoric celebration that all is back to "normal".

It isn't and won't be for a good while yet.

I see Scomo is willing to relax restrictions related to coronavirus on the condition people download the app he wants on their phones.

I have a condition of my own: that he provide a public apology for the debacle caused by "Robodebt", which, among other things, caused suicides.

I think that, in the mind of many, the government cannot be trusted to use computer software safely, and this is the reason for the reluctance to download this app.

I am concerned that the banks are not really sharing the burden during the current coronavirus crisis.

They are still charging interest, though deferred, on mortgages, where people have no income and no jobs.

The deferred interest and repayments will cause huge losses in September when home-owners and landlords have to sell their houses at a loss to pay these deferred amounts.

Many homeowners with house mortgages have no job and are receiving no income.

Landlords are teachers, ordinary workers, police, firemen and women, ambulance people and nurses. Yet, where tenants are paying no rent, the banks are still charging interest on landlord's mortgages.

Many landlords have no job either and cannot afford the interest payments at all.

The banks should also be receiving no income, rather than profiting off the community's hardship.

Banks need to cancel interest, not defer the interest, and not capitalise interest.

With the discussion about which way to walk around the lake still continuing, I wonder that no one has so far mentioned those who cannot walk all the way round.

I am such a one.

The most I can manage is from one car park to another and back at Lake Ginninderra.

This means I walk in both a clockwise and anticlockwise direction each time.

There must surely be people who do similar walks at Lake Burley Griffin.

All the signs say "keep left" and "give way to pedestrians".

If everyone simply considered others instead of just themselves the problem would not exist.

I agree entirely with Phil Nicolls (Letters, May 4). Before COVID-19 struck I walked very regularly around Canberra's wonderful lakes.

Now I do it at personal risk due to the increased cyclists who, as Mr Nicolls suggests, "think the paths are for their exclusive use".

I have always kept to the close edge of the left hand lane.

Recently I have been winged several times by cyclists going flat out.

Frequently I have had to step off the path entirely so mountain bike riders remain on the path. Recently trying to cross Kings Avenue bridge I was marooned mid-bridge hanging on to the left railing because approaching cyclists refused to stay on the right.

I no longer attempt the Lake Burley Griffin walk. Cyclists, particularly those who wish to ride at speed are entitled to use the road, so please do.

I know that the subject of the collective noun was raised through the letters pages some time ago, but it appears that the ungrammatical treatment of this form of noun has continued unabated, and is actually getting seriously worse, particularly within the media.

The concept is really very simple. An orchard may contain several hundred trees, but it is still an orchard, a single entity. Likewise, a train will be comprised of an engine and several carriages - it is still a train (singular). A herd of cattle, a school of fish, a mob of kangaroos and a flock of birds are all single units. A very simple idea.

However, when it comes to groupings of people, we seem to think that the singularity is somehow unacceptable. The rules clearly remain the same. If it is a collection of people with a singular title (collective noun), it should be treated in the singular. Team, parliament, party, family, class and jury are examples of collective nouns involving humans. Why on earth should nouns relating to humans be treated differently to similar ones relating to everything else in the universe? Also, phrases such as "the team are", "the party were" or "parliament have" simply sound wrong.

This isn't pedantry on my part, merely a small attempt to at least partially limit the ruination of our language.

The ACT government's focus on active travel after its admission that it's made no progress in getting more people to ride to work in the last 10 years is encouraging.

Hopefully this leads to real funding commitments from the active travel department in the near future. However, while Canberra is often self-proclaimed to be Australia's cycling capital, this is definitely not what all cycling organisations believe, remembering that less that one year ago it took a last-minute petition to stop government from demolishing part of Canberra's only purpose-built sport-cycling circuit at Stromlo Forest Park.

The same government-owned venue has also seen numerous revisions to its master plan that have deleted and compromised provisions for bicycle riders. Given the current climate, and that SFP is one of Canberra's hardest working sport and recreational venues, let's hope this part of Canberra's bicycle riding legacy is also given the investments required for it to grow in line with Canberra's population too.

Please, please, please, folks, do not walk on the right on shared paths, as people sometimes suggest.

The crucial problem with this idea is that, as a cyclist, when you meet a walker head on on the wrong side of the path you never know whether they'll step left or right. Even assuming they notice you, and it's amazing how many don't when people are deep in conversation.

If they step left, they may be stepping into the path of another cyclist coming the other way.

On shared paths, as on roads, the rule of the road is left. Everyone keeps left, and faster vehicles pass on the right when it's safe to do so.

Everyone will be excited about being able to eat out as we progress. I would hope problems do not arise because of groups sitting at tables for selfish times. Tables will need to be booked and timed.

I'm surprised at the prominence the media gave to the weekend protesters. A couple of hundred nutters out of 26 million. Really?

So, two big races are coming up on Tuesday, November 3.

They are the US Presidential race and the Melbourne Cup. Let us hope that Joe Biden will be first across the line in the former, regardless of who wins the latter.

If I hear "moving forward", or worse, "we're all in this together" or "we're here for you" (usually from a TV personality) again I'll scream from my front door "I can't take it any more !". Please stop it.

Surely the second wave of the COVID-19 virus now emerging in South Korea and Germany is enough indication that if we relax restrictions too early, Australia will also experience the same result.

Re: John Barilaro's rant. Do all the Nationals think they're Barnaby Joyce?

So Barilaro has confirmed that he is what we knew all along. Nothing changes, but it's good to hear it from the (feral) horse's mouth.

Josh Frydenberg is unbelievable. He was recently outlining "the case for company tax cuts". Later, when asked if the Newstart Allowance will remain at the increased amount when the coronavirus crisis is over, he said no because "there is not a bottomless pit of public money". It is cruelty to leave people living below the poverty line.

I commend you on your editorial "We need to look after each other now", (canberratimes.com.au, May 9) but find offensive Ian Warden's "Prayer and poetry provide solace " (Panorama, May 9) which demonstrates neither compassion nor thoughtfulness.

His flippant and bitter approach does little to recommend your paper to your readers.

Josh Frydenberg is inviting Australians into his dreamland that companies actually pay tax and that its reduction would somehow stimulate the economy.

Doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result defines insanity.

Could all television stations, particularly during this time of social isolation, please reduce the music behind their interesting documentaries so all viewers can hear?

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