Dr Liz Gordon: Mitigation and redemption
Keep yourselves safe and well and be kind.
Keep yourselves safe and well and be kind.
David Clark: “Well at least no other MP is going to be able to make a mockery of the pandemic lockdown rules”
Winston: “Hold my fishing rod”
April 13: Day 19 of living in lock-down…
Todays gratitude – Shout out Tuesday to the FireFighters who are still fighting fires during a pandemic. It’s tenacity on top of courage.
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Bill Maher is one of my favourite social critics and his show on Sky soho is the best weekly current affairs show on the planet.
The most important lessons from the first two weeks of lockdown:
Alienating woke micro-aggression policing Identity Politics activists to the left of me, climate denying crypto-fascist alt-right incel Trolls to the right of me, and here I am stuck in the middle with you.
Food supply is a matter of national security. Empty shelves in the supermarket are an unfamiliar sight in New Zealand, more reminiscent of 1980s Eastern Europe. We’ve had such relative privilege for so long, many of us forgot how dependent we were on contingent, international supply chains.
Yesterday I spoke with journalist and political commentator Chris Trotter about the things he thinks we need to preserve in our way of life and those we need to change.