Ryan Bridge may be telling us what we already know, but at least he’s saying it.
This Covid phase one report – the verdict is in, and it’s pretty much ‘guilty your honour’.
Fine to begin with, and then they as the single podium of truth basically went too far, for too long. Tell us something we don’t know.
[…] I never spoke about the messages I got from some of them during my interviews, challenging old Jacinda Ardern during that period, especially those outside of Auckland during the lockdown to end all lockdowns. They were threats of beatings on my social media, loads of homophobia, I was killing people with my questions, there was hate, there was vitriol.
The kind and tolerant left. I bet these were the same people who thought those who refused to take the vaccine should have been put in jail.
[…] Then there was the MIQ cruelty – you will never get another opportunity to kiss a loved one goodbye. Never. I watched Hipkins in his media stand up yesterday with the usual half [mea] culpa lines. We can learn lessons from this in the future and the benefit of hindsight is a great thing.
What’s the problem with that? Well, there were plenty of people with plenty of advice at the time. He could have listened to but chose not to. Instead, they labelled the protest as a river of filth, we wrote off entire sectors of scientific community in the name of social cohesion. Like a pack of rabid dogs attacking a limp lamb – that’s what we were, we turned into that.
What’s the bet that if it were Jacinda’s grandmother in MIQ on her last legs there would have been no problems with her getting to say her goodbyes. Bastards...
Had they listened to Auckland, to the Plan Bers, some economists and experts and other fields, to Lady Deborah Chambers who bravely put her head above the parapet on behalf of the legal fraternity, Simon Bridges basically lost his job over a Facebook post, pointing out many of the problems that turned out to be quite accurate. But now it was all Siouxsie Wiles and Co crying because we didn’t go further and go harder.
They were too drunk on power and pride to listen to anyone.
And where are we now? Kids not going to school, productivity jabbed in the face, crime out of control. Mental health and anxiety, particularly for kids, also taking a hit to the face. The wait list for critical medical treatments delayed, construction stopped, projects delayed despite the Aussies being faster and looser on both counts. It was the biggest overreach of power, both in real terms and in some cases, legally, this country has potentially ever seen. And only now do they say we might reconsider forcing a barista to get a jab that they don’t want.
[…] There was just one thing missing from yesterday. Any response from the four horsemen of the Apocalypse: Grant Robertson, Jacinda Ardern, Ashley Bloomfield, and Adrian Orr. Where were they? Grant’s on $800,000 at Otago University, Orr’s doing victory laps for cutting rates he hiked too high and then flooding the country with cash. And Ardern, remember, she said her single biggest driver in politics was to fix child poverty, now living in New York while the cost of living crisis she helped engineer, then [denied] was existing, hammers some of our poorest, and to use a word they made famous during the Covid catastrophe, our most vulnerable.
Yeah, Cindy and her quest to end child poverty. And let’s not forget her ‘climate change moment’ and her ‘captain’s call’ to end offshore drilling, resulting in more job losses than just in Wellington. Not that you’d hear about it in the MSM.
Cowards, the lot of them. Either running away so that they don’t have to front up, or hiding and shielded by high paying gigs. Hooked on power and, just as importantly, pride:
‘Ooh, look at me! I’m saving the country!’
‘Ooh, look at me! I’m so smart! Only I know what to do to save us from Covid!’
‘Ooh, look at me! The rules don’t apply to me because I’m special!’
Yeah right. I can’t wait for the Tui board.
