The four alert levels were introduced by the government to deal with the impending coronavirus crisis, which at the time worked. They are not a ‘thing’, just an invention which has outgrown its usefulness.
Ardern’s daily media stand-ups, or to quote Andrea Vance’s ‘How Jacinda Ardern is using soft propaganda to beat Covid-19’ has got people fearful about leaving level 4. It’s like the four alert levels have some kind of ‘biblical significance’ when they don’t.
Ardern is keeping a strangle hold on the public and our economy in paralysis by retaining the four levels. Other countries come out of lock down with behavioural conditions attached, but with much less drama.
She lacks the agility and intellectual rigour to change and adapt to changing circumstances; she will destroy the economy and many lives.
Esteemed epidemiologist Sir David Skegg said in his inimitable way, “Sometimes the way down the mountain will be different from the route up.”
With 3 new cases on Wednesday, the lowest ever, we appear to have reached the summit and ‘knocked the bastard off’.
That is an infinitesimal number compared to our population of 4.7 million and one of the reasons Dr Bloomfield is increasingly confident about the smaller numbers of children going back to school.
With the ability to trace infection source at almost 100% and labs testing over 6,500 people on Wednesday, the future looks bright.
Still the PM insists on propagating fear, by telling us the future is in our hands. Nope PM. We have kept our part of the bargain, your government needs to step up.
Greater emphasis by the MoH should continue to go on retaining our low (or zero) infection levels, through effective border security, testing and ‘gold standard’ tracing, and let the public get on with their lives (whilst retaining the learned safeguards).
The ball is now well and truly in the Ministry of Health’s court, to keep us safe and deliver PPEs and flu vaccines to where they are needed on time.
Is it any surprise this government which delivered 15 Kiwi Build homes in February (according to Hosking) has cocked some of this up as well? They just can’t help themselves.
Contrary to the left and some of the media’s opinion, I believe Simon Bridges is right to point out we are still in lockdown because they have not done the work. There seems to be an unspoken understanding by some (ie. it’s politically incorrect) to criticize the PM.
After his interview with the Opposition Leader on Breakfast this week, Haydon Jones said its Simon’s job to hold the government to account, (wonder how long he’ll last). Jenny May Clarkson replied she did not think it was appropriate to criticize the government. Just gobsmacking, but the right comment if she wants to retain her job at TVNZ.
The Opposition Leader speaks for me and many others who don’t have a voice and who disagree with some of the government’s recent decisions. He is not in my (humble) opinion tone deaf.
And yes, Australia’s epidemic response provides an excellent example of walking and chewing gum at the same time (to quote Bridges). They got their testing and contact tracing functioning at a superior rate early on and border quarantine in place two weeks earlier than us, whilst leaving part of their economy going, hairdressers open and takeaway coffee and food available.
I agree with him, we were ready to go to level 2 a couple of weeks ago. Keep speaking out Simon, annoy the heck out of the compliant Jacinda loving media and feral left as we move through these unprecedented, dark times.
And no, Grant, ‘shovelling money out of a helicopter’, to quote Shadow Finance Spokesperson Paul Goldsmith, while continuing to ignore the plight of small businesses, is not the way to rescue an economy teetering on the edge of a cliff.
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