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# We Went From Isolation to Close Friendships
- URL: https://goodoil.news/we-went-from-isolation-to-close-friendships/
- Published: 2025-01-14T21:00:35.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-14T21:00:35.000Z
- Description: Enforced isolation without an end in sight is torture.
- Author: Eliora
- Tags: NZ Politics

During the Covid-19 nonsense, former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern cruelly said to Jack Tame on *Q&A* (May 2020) that ‘we have the powers to make this happen if you don’t comply’.

> *“We are going to step up that enforcement: things like spot checks to ensure people are self-isolating. *If you don’t self-isolate there are quarantine powers available to us*.” (Emphasis added)* 
>  
> *“We can put you in a facility and we can monitor your movements.”* 
>  
> *“You are not to speak to your neighbour”.*  
>  
> [https://www.1news.co.nz/2020/03/14/coronavirus-jacinda-ardern-says-enforced-isolation-possible/](https://www.1news.co.nz/2020/03/14/coronavirus-jacinda-ardern-says-enforced-isolation-possible/?ref=goodoil.news)

Here is a brilliant response to Ardern’s isolation nonsense. As this valued member, a retired pharmacist, was leaving our sump last week after a long morning tea, I asked him a question. Here is his thought-out answer. 

> **The Good Oil Meetings**  
>  
> Eliora asked me today  
> How long I’ve been coming this way.  
> It all started when I was asked to speak  
> When the **Covid hoax** was at its peak.  
> Since then, I have attended regularly  
> And enjoyed the company immeasurably.  
> I learn a little bit more at every meeting  
> Of how we can all set about defeating  
> This **BS** that all these **clowns keep bleating**.  
> What I think of it is not worth repeating  
> In the polite company that I’ve been keeping.  
>  
> What you’ve got to understand is that we are **AT WAR**  
> With these **clueless, cunning, humourless, BORES.** 
> **We will win** if we **think and stick together** 
> **And we will** **not give up** **forever or ever.** 
> **With love** and **respect for all. Let’s go forward**  
> Until their **evil plans are all thwarted!**  
>  
> By Lazy Dynamite, January 2025

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Thanks to Lazy Dynamite and all the other members of the Tauranga Good Oil Sump.