GUEST BLOG: One Small Offering; Viral Thoughts by Vanessa Kururangi.
Hearts don’t beat in isolation.
Hearts don’t beat in isolation.
The government’s announcements today are a useful start to combatting the impending crisis. There is an international economic recession unfolding that will cause many businesses to cut spending and slash jobs.
I’ve been pretty disquieted about some of the rhetoric that’s been going around the place along with Covid-19. Yes, we know that the health impacts are disproportionately severe for people over sixty. Yes, we know that in many Anglosphere countries, there is an occasionally pretty understandable annoyance on the part of younger people against the regrettably not-always-that-imaginary stereotype of Der Boomer.
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Saving businesses is the first priority – workers losing their jobs are collateral damage and, after minimal help, will have to fend for themselves.
Someone needs to sit Simon down, pour him a really strong whiskey, let him have a couple of slugs, bitch slap him with your ring finger, and state in a very clear calm manner…
7 months until the 2020 election and on the most recent polling, the next likely Government is National ACT.
The Government are woefully proceeding with the Free Speech vs Hate Speech legislation before the election and they are conducting it in secret with the Human Rights Commission…
As TDB has pointed out from the beginning, this had all the ingredients of an uncontrollable pandemic that will deeply damage the economy and create a public health nightmare.