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NZ Politics
Cultivating a Snitch Culture
Well, it’s happening already. “A police website for reporting suspected lockdown breaches was so overrun with complaints it crashed just hours after being launched,” […] “If you suspect a business or individual is breaching the Covid-19 level four isolation rules you can now head online to fill out a
Covid-19 is the Death Knell for Globalism
In 2015 Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland rejected the EU’s open-border policy, slamming their borders shut to the millions of economic migrants spewing into Europe from the Middle East and Africa. The unwelcome visitors were rejected for a variety of reasons: they brought with them a
LIVE: Epidemic Response Committee – 1 April 2020
This committee was established on 25 March 2020 to consider and report to the House on matters relating to the Government’s management of the COVID-19 epidemic. It meets on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 1000-1230.
Beware the Ides of March
Beware the ides of March. Julias Caesar ignored such superstitious claptrap, yet the advice, if heeded, might have changed world history; who knows? The ides – ‘the middle”, from which we get ‘divide’ – has come and gone. At the ‘kalender’, the beginning of the month, our leader assured us the chances
Request for Full Quarantine at Border Denied by Officials
Requests by National party members of the Epidemic Response Committee and esteemed epidemiologist Sir David Skegg to fully quarantine all people coming into our country were met with a lukewarm response by top government officials being questioned on Tuesday. The rationale behind the question was if the country is suffering
Daily News Roundup
Public health strategy Derek Cheng (Herald): Lockdown ‘not enough’, top professor tells Govt video conference Derek Cheng (Herald): Just when you thought the Opposition had become irrelevant (paywalled) James Fyfe (Newshub): Sir David Skegg urges Government to show clear plan to eliminate COVID-19 Jamie Ensor (Newshub): New Zealand still
No! We Are Not Racist!
Mark Much comment has been made about the mishandling of the COVID-19 outbreak by China and rightly so. It needs to be made crystal clear that our beef is absolutely not with the people of China. It is with the leadership of China. The people of China are suffering
Chris Hipkins and His Educational Cluster Bomb
Just 15 days ago Education Minister Chris Hipkins stated very publicly that schools, universities, polytechnics and early-childhood centres are “very, very safe places” to be, despite the coronavirus pandemic. A great deal has happened in the 15 days since he made that stupid statement. One of the worst clusters
Kindness Not Competence a Priority for Our Government
George I was listening to Mike Hosking this morning and was interested to hear him express his frustration that the media cannot interview Government appointed key medical experts beyond the “official” organised 1.00pm update. No one-on-one interviews have been allowed. They are afraid a few ‘facts’ may
BFD Political Corner: Election 2020 National Party
BFD Political corner: Election 2020 is a series that features political speeches, political ads and political campaigns on Social media from a range of different political parties in the lead up to the New Zealand election. Today we have the National Party: Please send us links to any speeches, social
Messages from the Bubble
Satire This post is satire, but watching the PM every day it might just be realiddy.
Why Would a Cigarette Factory Stay Open?
Businesses across New Zealand have had to close, with no exceptions at all except for “essential businesses”. What is an essential business, you ask? Examples given have included supermarkets, pharmacies – and the Imperial cigarette factory in Petone, Wellington. Huh? Stage-four – the most-extreme of New Zealand’s coronavirus alert
National Brings the B-Team to the Game
The National Party has brought their B-Team to the Covid-19 game. Seriously? Not a single person in that bunch of chumps has any experience under pressure. I’ll give Shane Reti a pass as he is actually a medical doctor. I can give Paul Goldsmith, the suspected internal
Does New Zealand Have a Pandemic Plan?
In the last few weeks, we’ve been hearing about how our Government has a great coronavirus pandemic plan. The message Prime Minister Ardern has been trying to convey is Don’t worry, we’ve got this covered. We’re sorted. You can trust us. The truth is a little