Celebrities relaxing in their hot tubs in their multi-million-dollar mansions. Publicly-funded journalists at the national broadcaster. Politicians with eye-watering allowances. For us ordinary working stiffs slogging through the Xi Plague and its associated disruptions, being hectored to “stay home” by people with guaranteed jobs, income and
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The Chinese government has been playing the West for fools. First, they plundered all our personal protective equipment items, knowing full well we were going to need them. Then they turned around and offered to send us PPE. But wait. Not the PPE they plundered from us, the crappy stuff
We are at Level 4 of New Zealand’s four-level COVID-19 alert system. It is likely Level 4 measures will stay in place for a number of weeks. More information on alert levels. * Everyone must now stay home, except those providing essential services. * Only make physical contact with
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LionRed The author is based in the UK at the moment (ex-pat Kiwi) and travels the world as a consultant in developing countries working on business development. As a result, he is totally cynical about NGOs, the UN and WHO etc. He is regularly exposed to contacts with governments
The idea from Hardernurly’s (Jacinda Ardern’s) misleadia-managers to plagiarise the slogan ‘Test, test, test‘ in the Covid Catastrophe propaganda war has proven to be very bad advice indeed. She should have known better, communications degree ‘n all. It’s had some severe blow-back, denting her credibility,
Despite new data in the US showing half of the people with the virus have no symptoms, the government still stubbornly refuses to quarantine all Kiwis returning home. Back on February 18th Michael Woodhouse, shadow health spokesperson, was saying “The government needs to make sure adequate quarantine facilities are available
Google has used their vast amounts of data from users to show how dramatically the economy has been affected by the nationwide shutdown. It is sobering reading. These Community Mobility Reports aim to provide insights into what has changed in response to policies aimed at combating COVID-19. The reports
It’s my own fault. Believing it was, surely, not possible to say anything more arrogant than her performance on March 19th when she declared herself and her administration “your single source of truth”, I hadn’t taken the opportunity to recalibrate my supersiliometer which carefully measures the contemptuous arrogance
The problem in New Zealand right now is that our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, is all style over substance. She prefers to use choreographed stand ups and press conferences and cheesy stunts to gloss over the pig’s ear she is making of the economy. A case in point was
I am developing a strong respect for Grant Robertson. I never rated him much as a finance minister, simply because he has no background in finance or economics, but clearly Grant is one of the very few ministers who has worked hard to get on top of his portfolio. While
The other day Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, the Director General of Health, said that he was closely following the US CDC for advice regarding the use of masks. This was the same day he lied to media about our testing regime following “international practice” when we aren’t even close to
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