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# PM’s Patronising Accolades Are Misguided
- URL: https://goodoil.news/pms-patronising-accolades-are-misguided/
- Published: 2020-05-04T22:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-05-04T05:58:03.000Z
- Author: Lindsay Mitchell
- Tags: COVID-19, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24

**Lindsay Mitchell**  
[lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com](https://lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com/2020/05/pms-patronising-accolades-are-misguided.html?ref=goodoil.news)

The police are [running around](https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/beachgoers-and-builders-in-firing-line-amid-warning-concerning-level-3-breaches?ref=goodoil.news) ordering people off Christchurch beaches. Their message: “If you’re not exercising, clear out.” So you can skip on a beach but not sit on it.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/screen-shot-2020-05-04-at-5.50.31-pm.png)

The BFD. Police at a Christchurch beach.

It’s a revolting and indefensible state of affairs.

But it set me off again on trying to get my head around another consideration.

Many New Zealanders are not law-abiding. Think the size of the black economy. Or that some don’t bother to register a birth. Or that substantial numbers lie about their family circumstances to qualify for a benefit. Or the extent of still-illegal cannabis use. Just a few examples I can substantiate for any readers who think I make stuff up.

Despite the PM’s patronising and puke-making accolades for our *en masse* efforts, do YOU honestly believe the level 4 lock down was dutifully observed across the country?

I don’t. Not for a minute.

Yet the Covid incidence reduced anyway.

Which explains why Australia’s far less intrusive and stringent lockdown measures achieved similar results.

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