Its the miscreants and self justifying everyday people in their selfish bubbles who will make this drag on and on and miss a great chance to deal to this virus. Everyday people thats who. Divided we will fail.
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Its the miscreants and self justifying everyday people in their selfish bubbles who will make this drag on and on and miss a great chance to deal to this virus. Everyday people thats who. Divided we will fail.
I for one don't agree with what our government has done. However I have not flouted the lockdown. I will continue to question the wisdom of many of our governments decisions/non-decisions during this period. The government needs to be held to harsh scrutiny. They are receiving a range of advice from even more severe restrictions to far lesser. There are a variey of options on the table, this government has chosen an incredibly expensive route with no obvious exit strategy, other than hoping on the fast production of a treatment for the virus.
I have even less confidence in WHO and am becoming increasingly concerned about the UN's wider political agenda around this pandemic.
I agree with your last point, jonu. The UN has become increasingly conspicuous by its absence until recently - but perhaps this isn't surprising given the neglect (contempt?) with which some of the bigger powers treat it.
Absolutely - Trump in his wisdom killed not only off the US department responsible for preparing a pandemic response (and look, how good this does them now), but he was as well hell bound to financially starve the WHO and the UN. Both the US as well as the rest of the world are now paying a very high price for supporting this idiot.
To be fair to Trump - though it hurts me to write that! - the poor treatment of the UN by the USA started long before he came along. The biggest economy/strongest power in the world has never taken kindly to the UN telling it what to do!
Pretty gratifying to see 6 Business leaders giving a big approval to Govt in todays herald.Great comments too , just a few below.
"What score between 1 and 10 do you've the Govt's general performance in handling this crisis so far?"
Mark Cairns CEO POT 8.
Mark Lister Craigs 8
Miles Hurrell Fonterra "its not about point scoring, theirs no playbook for this.Im happy with how its been handled and how they've been receptive to working with businesses
Don Braid "Main Freight" 10 " I applaud their performance. This is the time to support the govt and their objectives.They have united NZ in this battle, and the response from our front line responders has been wonderful; putting others before themselves, and acting with courage and kindness. makes us proud to be kiwis."
Sharon Zillner ANZ 9
Chris Quit foodstuffs 8 and a half.
Predictions of lockdown time from 4 weeks to as long as it takes.
How CEOs are coping with Covid 19 coronavirus: Mainfreight's Don Braid New Zealand's top business leaders on coping with the pandemic.
Ps am trying the herald premium delivered for 8 weeks @ $64. Really enjoying all the content through this lockdown.
All essential Businesses permitted to continue operating
Would would those on the other end of the Spectrum be saying ?
What about those with Businesses now shut down, facing all the rest of their ongoing overhead costs ?
(Remember Govt has only relieved them of some wage costs & made provision for guarantee of
Bank Loans - that is if they survive the duration & they can afford to repay down the track;
and nothing more)
Or all those about to be made redundant ?
Or those Casuals in Hospitality industries now being cut to No Hours / No Job ?
Would those in later groups be saying something considerably different ?
Just for Balance in looking at things
No not yet they do not as Stuff showed the other day. They are still constrained by the Acts. So if you are in a vehicle with someone else that is not your bubble and they pull you over, all they can do is warn you and not arrest you. They can only enter your property if they think that there is someone with covid-19 infected that is harming the greater wellbeing of the public.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/cri...lockdown-rules
WHAT THE POLICE GUIDELINES SAY
The document starts by telling officers there is no curfew in place, and people are still allowed to move around as long it does not have the potential to further spread the virus.
Good point, nztx. There's a certain bias in that "survey"!Quote:
All essential Businesses permitted to continue operating
Would would those on the other end of the Spectrum be saying ?
I see just a few essential sectors left unscathed or with minor effects if the lock down continues if no further "Real" (not just Govt pick up a % of Wages) assistance to the other operators & sectors is forthcoming from Govt
There will be a large sea of broken insolvent businesses which will be incapable of being restarted.
The time for Govt is now to wake up & act, not next week
Similarly why are Wages Subsidies in places still not paid out even after 10+ days ?
The Govt must take responsibility for the potential ensuing Shambles it has created, if it expects any sort of real recovery
& a lot of these businesses to restart, rather than Robertson & mates keeping their mouths shut and heads in the sand
It's all very good & well a Govt adopting a 'Try to save the worker, but sacrifice the Business' approach, but the country
expects a far far more Responsible Approach from any Government in Power than Labour have shown to date
Guaranteeing Loans for Business doesn't cut it nor any excuse for what they should be doing in times they have orchestrated
on the Country - Govt needs to come up with the wholesale bucks if they expect any or most business to fare through this
and that's not a minor"here's a subsidy - keep them employed it all has to land in the employee's hands" type of job
The Unions need to wake up and force Govt's hand on this if they expect their members to even have jobs in the future
and also get their heads out of the sand as they now are, suggesting closed down companies such as Bauer should have
applied for the subsidy. In these times some commonsense is expected & Joe Public will be seeing right through
the Union Media spats for exactly what they represent
Very good couple of posts nztx. I have been reluctant to criticise the Government too much so far but am increasingly concerned about the apparent lack of any realistic plan to assist small and medium sized businesses continuing, tens of thousands of which are going to the wall as we speak. Not helped by the wage subsidies not being paid out. I am also concerned that there appears to be plan whatsoever on how to restart the country again and sadly I don't think this inexperienced Cabinet is capable of it. Some very expensive mistakes are being made I'm afraid.