As the Covid plague rages unabated around the planet…
WHO says worst of pandemic ‘yet to come’: Coronavirus latest
The WHO warns the pandemic ‘is not even close to being over’, as the number of deaths worldwide exceeds 500,000.
…new fears that a swine flu is the next possible pandemic have come to light…
Is swine flu going to be the next pandemic?
The world has been worried about pandemic diseases for many years. Before Covid-19, attention was focused on influenza viruses as the most likely cause. A recent paperreminds us that the threat from flu remains very real. It reports that a swine flu virus is circulating in China that has the potential for pandemic spread in humans.
…all the while, Death Cult Capitalists keep screaming for us to open the border.
As I am able to move around my city far more easily without all the International Students, all the migrant workers and the 3million tourists who visit us annually, I ask myself, ‘Why should we reopen the border’?
Why should those International Students we exploit come back? The ones educational institutes prioritise instead of domestic students. The ones who compete with working class people for housing and public services.
Why should the migrant workers we exploit come back? The ones the bosses use at cheap rates which undermine domestic workers and who compete for housing with domestic workers? The ones the agricultural industry and service industry exploit.
Why should hyper tourism that saw freedom campers using our countryside as a long drop, who gridlock our roading infrastructure, who make it impossible for NZers to enjoy their own tourism destinations come back again?
Why should we have exploited migrant workers, exploited international students and hyper tourism that gridlocks our roads back in the country again?
We should not allow any of them back UNTIL
- Full Union membership for every International Student so they can’t be exploited.
- Removal of citizenship paths via students and migrant workers.
- Full Union membership for every migrant worker so they can’t be exploited.
- A boutique tourism experience that includes mandatory quarantine and a tourism tax.
- The infrastructure is built to handle and process mandatory quarantine.
Our moat has saved us and our tyranny of distance is our protection. Why the hell would we put at risk our Covid free status so the exploitation of international students, migrant workers and unsustainable hyper tourism can occur again? Why would any of us give up the sudden easing of the gridlock we’ve all suffered under because of hyper tourism? Why allow the Landlords to put their foot back on our throats by allowing International Students and Migrant workers to desperately queue for our rental homes?
The tears of anguish from those who profit from hyper tourism, exploitation of International students and exploitation of Migrant workers taste delicious to me.
Keep that fucking border closed.
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Regarding the immigration increases being pressured upon NZ – Also we advocate that the funding for building a solid working “climate change policy” and the funding into our ‘rebuild for immigration” and that the funding exclusively comes from those immigrants and definitely not “subsidised by the NZ taxpayer as usual is not ever abused yet again.
Totally agree, keep borders closed. Apparently thousands of returnee’s are being bought in with massive demand that can not be filled. When the thousands of people come to NZ often on paid for passports, they have the ability to make infrastructure, health care, jobs, housing etc much worst for those already in the country in addition to the risks of Covid so it needs to be done carefully.
There should also be a criteria of those who are citizens and strong ties to NZ coming home first (aka actually born and lived here for much of their lives), against the usual NZ neoliberal ‘bums on seats approach’ with people who bought Kiwi status on paper and obtained PR, visas and citizenship in the last decade, but after gaining their residency chose not to live here and now wants to come back with the relatives to shelter in NZ taking up the quarantine spaces while others can’t get in.
Another bonus to
We should not allow any of them back UNTIL
Full Union membership for every International Student so they can’t be exploited.
Removal of citizenship paths via students and migrant workers.
Full Union membership for every migrant worker so they can’t be exploited.
A boutique tourism experience that includes mandatory quarantine and a tourism tax.
The infrastructure is built to handle and process mandatory quarantine.
is that if we start getting foreign students for education only then it will also hopefully return our educational standards back to acceptable levels, remove the dumbing down and cheating, and improve student pastural care which seems very lacking in many woke/neoliberal focused universities.
Universities seems prone to student deaths in sad circumstances under the foreign students bums of seats model which is also stopping domestic students from higher education.
Student’s body went unnoticed in university hall for close to eight weeks
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/116071426/students-body-went-unnoticed-in-university-hall-for-close-to-8-weeks
Canterbury University student Miwa Chapman died of meningococcal disease
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/119816026/canterbury-university-student-miwa-chapman-died-of-meningococcal-disease?rm=a
CTV Building
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTV_Building
I’m an immigrant and have lived here a thirty of my live now, but yes I agree, if people just return without giving any benefit to the country, then they shouldn’t bother. When we arrived we are put under a microscope and went trough a layer of rules and expectations to get where we are now. This is a safe country, yet the politicians make it more unsafe then any of the people. not talking about covid 19, but talking about what works out best for them, not for their constituents.
When someone in politics makes a job for life, then it shows clearly a sudden unrightfully system. Why not put a time limit to the time a politician can serve in parliament and restrict the limits of perks. That will be the moment that you will find the real people caring politicians, that are really are looking about what is good for the country. But I guess, I better turn around and keep dreaming.
+100 saveNZ…well said
….and especially “Removal of citizenship paths via students and migrant workers”.
We have morality to think about. We should care about others who have been allowed or invited in and made us their country. We don’t want to be like Australians are to NZs. That would be sick. But we also have to be judicious. But just closing the border, the door in the face of people already with partners, children, jobs they were in and doing well, think again.
It seems so easy to be two-faced turncoats for many NZs – hate unfair landlords who toss tenants out (and may have had good reason and right), but when we feel ownership over our border look stony-faced on people who need to be allowed back in. Oh what a turnaround – how well we can play the part of the objective decision-maker who knows what’s appropriate action and is not prepared to compromise. And I am just as anxious not to have Covid-19 community transmission as anybody else, and am trusting that we will do things morally and practically right here (with appropriate well-organised places for isolation), as long as Labour is in power that is.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/first-up/audio/2018753969/to-extend-low-skilled-visas-or-not-recruit-train-nzers
This looks fruitful for sensible decision making.
Kiwis first – or continue to support non-citizens already here. It’s the debate raging over who should be prioritised when it comes to jobs. Amid mounting pressure, the government yesterday announced the 16 thousand 500 people on temporary work visas due to expire by the end of 2020, will have their visas extended by six months.
And about 600 lower-skilled visa holders who are subject to a 12-month stand-down period and were going to have to leave, will also be able to stay for the duration of the extension. But Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway says employers longer term focus should be on recruiting and training New Zealanders.
Shortly we’ll be joined by former Immigration Minister Tuariki Delamere, who now runs an immigration consultancy. But first, Matthew Tukaki is the Chair of the National Maori Authority, he was also formerly the head of recruitment company Drake International Australia.
Tunnel visions down K’ Road, eh?
I think awesome people must be forced to come here to grow pot then smoke it with us because who and what we’ve had so far is a bit shit, I think, to say nothing of what we’ve become.
@ Maori? I bet you thought your invading colonials would be a bit more cool and funky, right? But oh no.
They built small, shitty houses then grew ugly macrocarpa hedges around them to hide from each other behind.
Palled political suit wearers thinking the neck tie is still a thing? Nope. Side eyed, sly, deal doers? Nope. Rich fetishist philanderers, misandrist’s, mysogynist’s, mean little bullies and big fat lumbering ones too? Oh nope.
Accountants? Lawyers? Pen and paper fanciers club members? Nope. Calculator Prodders Club of the Pacific? Nah man. Beige paint fanciers club? Straight line and square edges builders of prison block accommodation for the neuveau riche rubber undie wearers and nipple clamp fanciers society incorporated members? No. Dear God no.
Been to Levin recently? Seen that cock shaped clock tower on the post office there?
Right then. Hop on google earth and have a look at another little town beginning with ‘L’?
Try ‘Lisbon’? That’s in Portugal.
Lisbon? Levin? Hardly a difference except in every sense.
Our AO/NZ are so extraordinary that we can’t see that for its beauty, the security it affords us and the wealth that’s ours that we give away daily while we go without.
It’s like having a wonderful and beautiful person in your life but you only realise that once they’re gone.
Let’s not, nor ever, let our beautiful AO/NZ slip away from us just because someone said we should.
KEEP THE BORDERS CLOSED.
Our borders should only be open again when the last one of us is shot dead on the beach by invading forces.
@ Maori? I can’t say sorry enough.
“The tears of anguish from those who profit from hyper tourism, exploitation of International students and exploitation of Migrant workers taste delicious to me.”
Me too. Non of these activities were ever politically mandated by the public of New Zealand. That they were slowly allowed to develop – particularly the education / for visa thing which was sneakily developed quite deliberately by government – has angered most kiwis ( NZ born citizens) for years.
Yes it is time we rescued the goose that laid the golden eggs before all is ruined. And what better time than now to set the new pathway, while all is in disarray.
If you want to stay inside like a hermit, so be it. Keep in mind, a vaccine is around the corner and the world doesn’t need you or care about you. If someone wants; they can simply invade and expel Europeans back to sea. Don’t be a cocky son of a bitch. You’re lucky that people like the natural beauty, and the Maori culture. No one is coming to NZ. The schools are ranked shit, the economy is crashing, and NZ doesn’t manufacture anything. No, no one should go there. And no one should fund NZ, give it loans, export goods and services, and allow you into their countries as well. The governor-general was right, this concept of public control leads to failed nationalism. The ruling elites must rule the masses as they just the reason why masses exist.
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