‘Now we must think of our community as much as ourselves’

On the worst day since Covid hit our city, Sydneysiders are still finding hope amid the despair. Daily Telegraph readers share their thoughts on why unity is our only way forward.

Even on Sydney’s worst day of the pandemic, signs of our city’s resilience are everywhere.

It is visible in the generosity of community groups, in the determination of essential and frontline workers, in innovative small businesses and parents juggling jobs with homeschool duties.

Today, as our state recorded another 262 new Covid cases and tragically, five more deaths from the disease, The Daily Telegraph dedicated our paper to Sydney.

Many people are doing it tough right now but as the stories in our special Sydney Strong edition today revealed, Sydneysiders are finding a way through.

Here’s what our readers had to say about our coverage:

Sunrise at Clovelly Beach on August 5. NSW recorded its highest case number of Covid-19 overnight, with 262 infections. Picture: Getty

Murray: “What a great tribute to the Sydney Strong Spirit. You have captured perfectly what it means to live in and love our great city and it’s people. We will prevail and soon welcome the visitors from all over the world that will also want to return to revisit their favourite city.”

John: “Good to see a little positive comment. It’s hard enough going through lockdown without some journalists, epidemiologists and politicians taking pot shots and generally being miserable”

David: (responding to Warren Brown’s article, ‘Sydney, we’ve got this’)

Great piece! Well done, Warren Brown. The problem is that through our success many of us became soft, comfortable, entitled and not willing to do the hard yards in adversity. This is the current generation’s turn to learn the hard facts of life – that nothing worth having comes easy, and the right to be comfortable must be earned when the chips are down. This is where we must show that the best qualities and traditions of our forebears still exist and serve us well. This is where we must pull together, think of our community as much as ourselves, and do what it takes to pull through.

Stephen: Great article. Written not to divide but unify. It’s a long time since I have read this type of journalism and I love it.

Michael: Well said. Anybody who has travelled realises how terrific our country is and the amazing lifestyle we have. It’s good to see somebody write something positive for a change.

Quang Nguyen, 75, waters his garden in Cabramatta in one of the LGA most affected by the Delta outbreak. Photo Jeremy Piper

Winston: (responding to the stunning photo essay by Jeremy Piper: Faces of Sydney’s resilience)

Simple but powerful photographs of how the people of western Sydney live despite all the negative quips from people of the eastern suburbs about the area.

Amar Singh, founder of Turbans 4 Australia, is continuing to volunteer even as his own trucking business suffers in the lockdown. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Joy: (responding to ‘Acts of kindness giving us hope)

I love that these old and new Australians give so much. I only hope they too are all vaccinated.

Mick3A: These types of people are the backbone of the country and I hope they’re all able to come out of these challenging times.

Barbara: Instead of saying we are in this together we should be saying we can do this together. Every little bit we all do in some small way will give us the end result. A can-do attitude is far better than it is all too hard. So try to look for the good and not the negative as this will not get us through.