What a pity he didn’t set up a similar road block years ago to stem the marijuana traffic which ‘diseased’ the communities of the north in epidemic proportions!
Mana doesn’t share your theory that communities up north are “diseased.”
Garry Bennett think Cannabis is like Covid-19 ,,,, I’m surprised such a moron with his diseased brain can type.
You can put the thug in a suit but it’s still a thug.
Pfft. How’s your man in the Whitehouse going?
Your ‘ thug’ comment is a more apt description of either Boris Johnson or Trump ….
Boris wanted village idiot science to be used on the UK ,,,, his great idea would have seen up to 1 million british people pay with their lives.
This thug idiot would have only changed his mind when it was pointed out this would make him lose the next election.
Neither of the thugs ,,, Trump or Boris ,,, give a fuck about health workers.
it will only get far worse when people stat dropping like fly’s
Kia Kaha Hone and the people of the North. If the authorities are not able to keep the tourists out of your area you do what you have to do. You can be sure Orangemanbad won’t be on the front line with the nurses & doctors trying to save your people if and when the virus takes a hold.
Two French tourists in a camper van touring the Wairarapa last weekend, called in a growers market and bought produce then asked for directions . While chatting let it be known they had been in NZ for 4 days.
When the hotline was rung it took 20 minutes before it was answered.
The health Dept is understaffed and meanwhile tourists are “self isolating” in camper vans while touring. Campervan hire firms should not allow overseas tourists to hire unless they have evidence of 14 days self isolation in the prescribed manner.
Go for it Hone and do all you can to get attention.
Totally agree Hone, all Tourists and just ordinary vistors, including Whanau need to go home. Stay home.
People wandering about are a menace to society. All the best up there.
Well done Hone.
Why did they let the tourists and non citizens still come to NZ?
As soon as there was a pandemic the government should have closed the borders.
From the tourists, visitors point of view, what should tourists/visitors do, aka they still need food and accomodation when they came and clearly most are not prepared for self isolation in any way, shape or form. Apparently many at the airports were just given pamphlets or nothing. Great planning as usual (sarcasm).
The non residents should have not been allowed to come in the first place from a month ago.
The government were still trying to get foreign students and workers into NZ for work, soon it will come out that they when picking the migrants were picking food or working in the factory they spread the virus to others. Already heard a friend say that 3 in their factory tested positive for Coronavirus.
Like all the magical thinking of government in the last 30 years, they have no practical reality in their thinking. Like health line, sounds great on paper to ring a health line first, less feasible when it is a 3 hour wait to talk to someone while constantly being cut off, who just says ring your doctor!
Now you can’t even ring you doctor or health line as the phones are overloaded. Also the greedy shortsighted companies who outsourced all their tech overseas will now help kill the rest of us, as our country grinds to a halt as the tech is overloaded and they field their low wage idiots to try and get a solution. No doubt the government will give them the telecoms yet another corporate handout instead of a kick up the butt and jail time for their incompetence which will kill people who can’t ring in emergencies.
We have too may bureaucrats in NZ who have no practical understanding and are not experts in anything but self promotion and personal advancement. Behind all the ‘experts’ in NZ seem to be marketing degrees not actual qualifications in their area and expert experience. It’s the blind leading the blind.
NZ managers just tick a box and think what a good boy/girl am I. Meanwhile they can’t comprehend why their neoliberal cost cutting and lack of investment into decent infrastructure and being unable to comprehend the importance of expert advice, does not work when the shit hits the fan!
‘…Behind all the ‘experts’ in NZ seem to be marketing degrees not actual qualifications in their area and expert experience. It’s the blind leading the blind’…
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AAHAHAHAHAAAA !
And places like Auckland University churn them out by the oil tanker load and the then ex students go on to fill the ranks of the so called ‘ professionals’ in this country or fuck off back to where they come from to do more of the same.
Auckland University , – the place who charged this govt and those who agree with it as RACISTS and XENOPHOBES because we and the govt wanted to protect or borders and our population, – when their REAL motivation was the amount they would lose when consulting with their bloody bean counters !!!
The so called seat of ‘ intellectual’ thinking. Don’t those pricks have Microbiological laboratory’s?
Aren’t they the same crowd who stand in line asking for govt research grants?
Fuck em.
And you got it bang to rights with this :
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…” Meanwhile they can’t comprehend why their neoliberal cost cutting and lack of investment into decent infrastructure and being unable to comprehend the importance of expert advice, does not work when the shit hits the fan! ”…
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Again, thank you for your diligence.
Kia ora Hone and others
Throughout the motu people are taking action to protect themselves and their whanau.
“Under what authority?” some ask, with the implication that only the colonial administration has the right to put in place measures designed to protect the community from this epidemic.
The New Zealand government made a calamitous mistake (??) when it decided to allow a wave of international travelers to enter New Zealand on March 14 and 15 without any requirement for quarantine or isolation, and then distributed those travelers throughout the main centres.
The catastrophic consequences of that decision seems to have brought the government to its senses, but it is still doing too little too late – perhaps only by a day or two, but days and hours are critical in this epidemic.
It has failed to provide food rationing and distribution, leaving the wealthy to provide more than adequately for themselves while the poor face an uncertain few weeks, perhaps unable to afford or to collect food supplies even if they remain available.
Supermarket staff are deemed “essential service” workers and required to put themselves at risk daily for the sake of the community at large while being paid the minimum wage. Meanwhile non-essential managerial and professional staff on salaries of $200,000 a year are working from the safety and comfort of home.
The colonial government has signaled that when we emerge from this crisis it wants the inequities of colonialism and capitalism to remain just as they were.
We should not and will not accede to that. It is very clear already that the regime’s initial mishandling of this epidemic was a direct result of its mindless deference to Whitehall. Once again the imperial connection has cost our people dearly.
Because the colonial state has failed, it becomes necessary for us to act.
Under what authority? That of Almighty God, Ihoa o nga mano.
In our rohe we instituted a lockdown a couple of days before Jacinda Ardern’ Level 3 announcement. One tourist that I know of asked to stay and has been allowed to on condition of respecting the rules we laid down. I believe that there may be others who have elected to stay on the same terms.
So we try to balance strict controls with manaakitanga.
Kia kaha
The PM hugs someone in Christchurch in the aftermath of that horror and for a year it’s clear some people don’t get it, and some people do and some clearly have no sense of empathy, what it is and the power of it. That shows the astonishing diversity of ways of operating and thinking. And the PM says ‘be nice to each other’ and that is beyond some.
I found this online tonight.
“Of course the police can’t keep us safe in situations like we have at present.. Anyone with an IQ of over 100 knows this. I’m guessing the weekend will see the first signs of unrest arise. I hope I’m wrong.
Now tell me… how do you plan to defend your home and loved ones should things deteriorate?
See, a big problem is Government, media and the public have talked themselves into believing a 4 week lock down should see us right, with things returning to normal. I’m afraid we may still be in lockdown when September rolls around. Trust me, that’s when a firearm will show its worth.”
The dystopian movie can’t happen, won’t happen?
Don’t agree with this post
Why should far north communities be forced into tourism during this time?
What a pity he didn’t set up a similar road block years ago to stem the marijuana traffic which ‘diseased’ the communities of the north in epidemic proportions!
Mana doesn’t share your theory that communities up north are “diseased.”
Garry Bennett think Cannabis is like Covid-19 ,,,, I’m surprised such a moron with his diseased brain can type.
You can put the thug in a suit but it’s still a thug.
Pfft. How’s your man in the Whitehouse going?
Your ‘ thug’ comment is a more apt description of either Boris Johnson or Trump ….
Boris wanted village idiot science to be used on the UK ,,,, his great idea would have seen up to 1 million british people pay with their lives.
This thug idiot would have only changed his mind when it was pointed out this would make him lose the next election.
Neither of the thugs ,,, Trump or Boris ,,, give a fuck about health workers.
it will only get far worse when people stat dropping like fly’s
Kia Kaha Hone and the people of the North. If the authorities are not able to keep the tourists out of your area you do what you have to do. You can be sure Orangemanbad won’t be on the front line with the nurses & doctors trying to save your people if and when the virus takes a hold.
Two French tourists in a camper van touring the Wairarapa last weekend, called in a growers market and bought produce then asked for directions . While chatting let it be known they had been in NZ for 4 days.
When the hotline was rung it took 20 minutes before it was answered.
The health Dept is understaffed and meanwhile tourists are “self isolating” in camper vans while touring. Campervan hire firms should not allow overseas tourists to hire unless they have evidence of 14 days self isolation in the prescribed manner.
Go for it Hone and do all you can to get attention.
Totally agree Hone, all Tourists and just ordinary vistors, including Whanau need to go home. Stay home.
People wandering about are a menace to society. All the best up there.
Well done Hone.
Why did they let the tourists and non citizens still come to NZ?
As soon as there was a pandemic the government should have closed the borders.
From the tourists, visitors point of view, what should tourists/visitors do, aka they still need food and accomodation when they came and clearly most are not prepared for self isolation in any way, shape or form. Apparently many at the airports were just given pamphlets or nothing. Great planning as usual (sarcasm).
The non residents should have not been allowed to come in the first place from a month ago.
The government were still trying to get foreign students and workers into NZ for work, soon it will come out that they when picking the migrants were picking food or working in the factory they spread the virus to others. Already heard a friend say that 3 in their factory tested positive for Coronavirus.
Like all the magical thinking of government in the last 30 years, they have no practical reality in their thinking. Like health line, sounds great on paper to ring a health line first, less feasible when it is a 3 hour wait to talk to someone while constantly being cut off, who just says ring your doctor!
Now you can’t even ring you doctor or health line as the phones are overloaded. Also the greedy shortsighted companies who outsourced all their tech overseas will now help kill the rest of us, as our country grinds to a halt as the tech is overloaded and they field their low wage idiots to try and get a solution. No doubt the government will give them the telecoms yet another corporate handout instead of a kick up the butt and jail time for their incompetence which will kill people who can’t ring in emergencies.
We have too may bureaucrats in NZ who have no practical understanding and are not experts in anything but self promotion and personal advancement. Behind all the ‘experts’ in NZ seem to be marketing degrees not actual qualifications in their area and expert experience. It’s the blind leading the blind.
NZ managers just tick a box and think what a good boy/girl am I. Meanwhile they can’t comprehend why their neoliberal cost cutting and lack of investment into decent infrastructure and being unable to comprehend the importance of expert advice, does not work when the shit hits the fan!
‘…Behind all the ‘experts’ in NZ seem to be marketing degrees not actual qualifications in their area and expert experience. It’s the blind leading the blind’…
————————-
AAHAHAHAHAAAA !
And places like Auckland University churn them out by the oil tanker load and the then ex students go on to fill the ranks of the so called ‘ professionals’ in this country or fuck off back to where they come from to do more of the same.
Auckland University , – the place who charged this govt and those who agree with it as RACISTS and XENOPHOBES because we and the govt wanted to protect or borders and our population, – when their REAL motivation was the amount they would lose when consulting with their bloody bean counters !!!
The so called seat of ‘ intellectual’ thinking. Don’t those pricks have Microbiological laboratory’s?
Aren’t they the same crowd who stand in line asking for govt research grants?
Fuck em.
And you got it bang to rights with this :
——————————
…” Meanwhile they can’t comprehend why their neoliberal cost cutting and lack of investment into decent infrastructure and being unable to comprehend the importance of expert advice, does not work when the shit hits the fan! ”…
——————————
Again, thank you for your diligence.
Kia ora Hone and others
Throughout the motu people are taking action to protect themselves and their whanau.
“Under what authority?” some ask, with the implication that only the colonial administration has the right to put in place measures designed to protect the community from this epidemic.
The New Zealand government made a calamitous mistake (??) when it decided to allow a wave of international travelers to enter New Zealand on March 14 and 15 without any requirement for quarantine or isolation, and then distributed those travelers throughout the main centres.
The catastrophic consequences of that decision seems to have brought the government to its senses, but it is still doing too little too late – perhaps only by a day or two, but days and hours are critical in this epidemic.
It has failed to provide food rationing and distribution, leaving the wealthy to provide more than adequately for themselves while the poor face an uncertain few weeks, perhaps unable to afford or to collect food supplies even if they remain available.
Supermarket staff are deemed “essential service” workers and required to put themselves at risk daily for the sake of the community at large while being paid the minimum wage. Meanwhile non-essential managerial and professional staff on salaries of $200,000 a year are working from the safety and comfort of home.
The colonial government has signaled that when we emerge from this crisis it wants the inequities of colonialism and capitalism to remain just as they were.
We should not and will not accede to that. It is very clear already that the regime’s initial mishandling of this epidemic was a direct result of its mindless deference to Whitehall. Once again the imperial connection has cost our people dearly.
Because the colonial state has failed, it becomes necessary for us to act.
Under what authority? That of Almighty God, Ihoa o nga mano.
In our rohe we instituted a lockdown a couple of days before Jacinda Ardern’ Level 3 announcement. One tourist that I know of asked to stay and has been allowed to on condition of respecting the rules we laid down. I believe that there may be others who have elected to stay on the same terms.
So we try to balance strict controls with manaakitanga.
Kia kaha
The PM hugs someone in Christchurch in the aftermath of that horror and for a year it’s clear some people don’t get it, and some people do and some clearly have no sense of empathy, what it is and the power of it. That shows the astonishing diversity of ways of operating and thinking. And the PM says ‘be nice to each other’ and that is beyond some.
I found this online tonight.
“Of course the police can’t keep us safe in situations like we have at present.. Anyone with an IQ of over 100 knows this. I’m guessing the weekend will see the first signs of unrest arise. I hope I’m wrong.
Now tell me… how do you plan to defend your home and loved ones should things deteriorate?
See, a big problem is Government, media and the public have talked themselves into believing a 4 week lock down should see us right, with things returning to normal. I’m afraid we may still be in lockdown when September rolls around. Trust me, that’s when a firearm will show its worth.”
The dystopian movie can’t happen, won’t happen?
Don’t agree with this post
Why should far north communities be forced into tourism during this time?
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