I have been driving around Wellington in the last couple of days. Traffic is abysmal, as usual. Stop start, stop start… but there are billboards all over the place advertising the Ru Paul show.
Tell me, New Zealanders… do you really think, in the middle of a pandemic, it was more important to bring in Ru Paul and his entourage than… fruit pickers, nurses, doctors, Kiwi family members, construction workers, engineers, IT workers…
Really?
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