Thanks for clarifying that.
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Don’t feel sorry for me, justakiwi although I appreciate your sentiment.
You should feel sorry though for the tens of thousands of NZers needlessly thrown out of their jobs because of the ‘strictest lockdown’ in the world.
Their sufferings are going to be profound and there will be social & health problems for years to come.
So sorry you live in a different planet from those of us who have had to console NZers who were made redundant & jobless in the past.
It is soul destroying and it beggars belief that this government is not commissioning a report to quantify how many additional jobless and corresponding deaths this ‘strictest lockdown’ in the world has caused. Why?
I accept your point of view even though I disagree with it. What I struggle with however, is the way you present your arguments and your constant “ramping up” of pretty much everything. It’s as if you never stop to take a breath.
Either way, you are not good for my emotional or mental well-being, so once again, I am out. The sun is shining, birds are singing, and life is too precious to waste it in pointless debates. Enjoy the rest of your day.
Covid-19 briefing today :
In response to a question of the possibility of the wealth gap widening because of the virus, Cindy undertakes to make sure that the gap will be addressed in the budget and in the years ahead.
Well, Cindy is already doing an outstanding job of creating more unemployment that necessary through the ‘strictest lockdown’ in the world, and balancing that increase in social welfare beneficiaries via impoverishing Mom & Dad through zero direct help for their businesses. Clever, huh?
Watch out for a whole raft of wealth tax in the budget. Sock it to the ‘rich’ so everybody becomes poor and closed the wealth gap.
Be afraid, be very very vigilant of the socialist agenda of this economically incompetent government.
As in plenty of promises made, broken and hidden:
Kiwibuild
CGT
Child poverty
Police numbers
Transparency
Accountability
Highest level of performance - Clare Curran, Phil Twyford, Iain Lees-Galloway, David Clark
And now, using the virus crisis to close the gap between so-called haves & have nots by increasing numbers of Have-Nots.
Bravo, westerly!
Yep , always know better dont they, wannabe armchair hindsight heroes but sadly rather caste methinks.If they aren't benificary bashing,Govt knocking, strong woman hating,, trumpifying, making irrelevant noises, and misinformation, being trolls for national.
Its an incredible balancing act going on right now and this govt is doing remarkably well with results so far. Just look at other countries and see the overrun hospitals, the massive un employment, the looming food shortages etc etc. We so lucky here.
Just changing the direction slightly here, it seems to me that the govt, which I give full marks for its handling of the crisis so far, now runs the risk of being accused of milking the situation for their own benefit. Perhaps a daily news bulletin, rather than a full blown daily press conference will soon be appropriate?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12328348
Professor Gorman :
NZ caught totally un-prepared for virus outbreak despite plenty of warnings from outbreak overseas.
Being an island nation, defence against outbreak must be at the border to stop those with the virus spreading it.
High trust model of self-isolation for the tens of thousands of travellers into NZ - naive in the extreme.
Should have used police and/or army (like in Taiwan) to make sure self-isolation strictly enforced. War against Covid-19 - necessary action.
Strictest lockdown ONLY option due to above.
Fortunate NZers took outbreak seriously - why lockdown works.
Economic costs are going to be horrendous. Unnecessary if tough and decisive action taken initially.
Well....we have an opportunity later this year to get a new government....if that is what the collective “we” want.
It’s not so far away. Be interesting to see the outcome.