GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – WINSTON – KEEPING THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE

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Winston and I seem to have a similar view of: “Where to next and When?”

Winston says:  

I said: 

Unquestionably, what Winston says, is far more important than what I say.

Unquestionably, what Winston is saying, is not what Mr. Hooton, is saying – soundly condemned by Bomber: 

Unquestionably, Winston and I have had a roller-coaster-ride: Good Old Days – to Bad Days – Scampi and collateral damage.

Today, we seem to be on the same horse.   Like, The Good Old Days?

The important thing to emerge from this – debate, is that the three contributors above, all want NZ to survive.   Two of us seem to be putting more emphasis on a BALANCED response – to avoid economic asphyxiation – as well as asphyxiation from COVID 19.  The third, seems to favour more protection for physical health, than economic wellbeing.

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It all a matter of – being reasonable in our response – in my view.

For example, paranoia about someone sneezing in your face in the supermarket!

Has anyone, ever – in the multi times you have waltzed around a supermarket, sneezed in your face?

Its like going out in a car.  The possibility of getting injured or killed on our roads, is a risk we all take every time we start the car or cross the road.

But, we all (well – most) take care to be careful.  Don’t crash a red light, for example. Safe, until some wanker comes through a read light and takes you out.

“Yeah, but someone who has the virus might deliberately sneeze on me!   Because if they got it, they reason that someone else can have it too.”

Ok.  But, so to might some poor soul, on the way home from the doctor – having just been told he/she has 3 months to live- cancer!  Drives head on into an oncoming car- because if he/she is going to die, so too can someone else.

These two extreme possibilities may happen.  But the probability is, neither will happen to you in your life time.  

Let’s keep things in perspective.

 

Ross Meurant; a former high-ranking police officer, former Member of Parliament, formerly with commercial interests in Syria and Iran and  currently Honorary Consul for an African state.

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