Labour govt 2020-23

[Balance]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-...CMBHCCHKIXG3I/

Only 9 out of 98 port workers vaccinated - so much for the wonderful border defence of Cindy’s government.

[Balance]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/hea...-investigating

Complete stuff up -

from the crew being untested before the 98 port workers boarded the ship,

to the workers being told to go into isolation snd then, back to work,

to only 11 of the 98 port workers being vaccinated.

WTF sort of border defence is this government running?

And it has to be the highly infectious and transmissible delta variant which the crew members are infected with.

[ynot]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/hea...-investigating

Complete stuff up -

from the crew being untested before the 98 port workers boarded the ship,

to the workers being told to go into isolation snd then, back to work,

to only 11 of the 98 port workers being vaccinated.

WTF sort of border defence is this government running?

And it has to be the highly infectious and transmissible delta variant which the crew members are infected with.

The Australian pilot who boarded the ship in Ausi tested positive prior to the ship arriving in Tauranga ! Subsequently 11 of the crew are now positive !

[Blue Skies]

The Australian pilot who boarded the ship in Ausi tested positive prior to the ship arriving in Tauranga ! Subsequently 11 of the crew are now positive !

Time line,
Last Tuesday 3 Aug, Port of Tauranga were given an alert by Maritime NZ that the ship had been boarded 2 weeks before by Australian Pilot who now tested positive.

Astonishingly, PoT still cleared the ship to berth & sent a PoT pilot who boarded the ship & brought it to the Tauranga Container Terminal on Wednesday afternoon.

9pm Wednesday night Customs shut down operations & told the Pilot & stevedores to go home & isolate.

Thursday PoT advised operations could continue & ship was worked on Thursday through Saturday with no restrictions on 92 workers social movements/contacts outside the Port.

Monday morning (today) 92 workers were told to report to the Port & get tested as advised by Ministry of Health.
What incompetence. PoT management put the whole country at risk now.

Further to this, can you believe Govt employed 'wider border workforce' workers (such as airline staff & port workers as opposed to MIQ workers) have until August 26 to get their 1st jab,
while privately employed border workers have until 30 September to get their 1st jab before consequences kick in.
I can't understand the complacency.

[Blue Skies]

I see there are calls coming from some to lockdown Tauranga tomorrow, with this Delta variant can we afford to wait like Sydney did.

[ynot]

I see there are calls coming from some to lockdown Tauranga tomorrow, with this Delta variant can we afford to wait like Sydney did.

Until we know the facts surrounding how much if any contact the port workers had with the crew, this may or may not be an issue.

[BlackPeter]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/hea...-investigating

Complete stuff up -

from the crew being untested before the 98 port workers boarded the ship,

to the workers being told to go into isolation snd then, back to work,

to only 11 of the 98 port workers being vaccinated.

WTF sort of border defence is this government running?

And it has to be the highly infectious and transmissible delta variant which the crew members are infected with.

Frankly - I guess it just shows that this government didn't even pass a management 101. They seem to think that whatever they say magically gets done.

Build 10,000 houses a year? No, surprise, they didn't just magically appear despite the government saying so.

Vaccinate all front line staff? Oops - they forgot to manage this process which involves to plan, check against plan and take corrective action if necessary.

It does not mean sitting on ones hands, wait for the media to identify issues and then run to find weak excuses. Apparently it was all due to evil misinformation that nearly 90% of the Tauranga port workers didn't yet get vaccinated.

While I don't contest that there are a lot of idiots around spreading all sorts of nonsense (we do have some of them as well on this forum ), it would be the government's job to identify these idiots and put their nonsense right instead of waiting for the next disaster and then using these idiots as excuse for non action.

Feels like a bunch of inexperienced third formers trying to run the country ... any chance we get next time around some professionals back into government?

[artemis]

Frankly - I guess it just shows that this government didn't even pass a management 101. They seem to think that whatever they say magically gets done.

Build 10,000 houses a year? No, surprise, they didn't just magically appear despite the government saying so....

There's a Ministry of Delivery now so magical will be happening.

About the 'misinformation' - the Prime Minister did say that was the big issue at the port along with or causing hesitancy. Nothing to do with the government, because they have a plan. Apparently. Though it does seem to be a successful plan on how to lose credibility real fast.

[Bjauck]

...and now we cannot supply electricity to our overpriced homes at the times they need it most.

She'll be right. Is it a case of The banks stuffing money into creating our expensive residential real estate; while Government allows Transpower to be neglected?

Who would have thought that population growth would create new Winter peaks for electricity demand too.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...n-frigid-night

BTW Perhaps National and its restructures can share a generous amount of blame for this too?

[BlackPeter]

...and now we cannot supply electricity to our overpriced homes at the times they need it most.

She'll be right. Is it a case of The banks stuffing money into creating our expensive residential real estate; while Government allows Transpower to be neglected?

Who would have thought that population growth would create new Winter peaks for electricity demand too.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...n-frigid-night

BTW Perhaps National and its restructures can share a generous amount of blame for this too?

Absolutely - National and Labour did work hand in hand to run down our power grid (and not just that) and the Green party did help (with their scare mongering) to make sure the Gentailer have been sold under value (at the cost of the tax payer). Ineptitude does not stop at political boundaries ... it seems to come naturally with the job description for many NZ politicians.

What is the logical outcome if we force more and more households to rely only on electric heating? Oh - power consumption goes up? Nah, lets not worry about that ... we will always find some weak excuses.

What do we expect to happen if we stop any future gas exploration around NZ? Companies will fall over each other and keep investing into an aging gas infrastructure? Well, they didn't - and this is clearly something Labour, NZ First and Green need to take responsibility for. Thanks to these geniuses are we now burning more and more dirty coal to generate power ... and it looks like even this is not enough.

We probably need to set up a new working group ... I hear their reports are great to kindle the fire in the logburner ... if you still have one ;