Look, there are a billion good reasons to shit on Trevor Mallard but this fairly innocuous and good hearted tweet wasn’t one of them…
…punters were quick to point out that WINZ doesn’t give a fuck about poor people and won’t allow beneficiaries to stock up on anything and that’s a legitimate complaint to Trev’s middle class messaging but then in comes Rawiri with this clunker…
…I’m sorry what?
Causing panic?
Rawiri’s issue with Trev is that he’s causing panic?
This is the same Rawiri who posted this?
The same Rawiri who had a person comment on that post literally believing that Labour had built a Squid Games murder Disneyland where Maori were butchered for the viewing pleasure of the Labour caucus, THAT Rawiri is complaining about Trev using fear to create panic??????
FFS!
The same people screaming that Delta would lead to a ‘genocide’ are now screaming Omicron will lead to a genocide while the same antivaxx lunatics screaming it’s just the flu are still screaming it’s just the flu!
Truth is Jacinda’s 90% vaxx leadership has protected us & her strategy will continue to do that!
The real danger of our infantile attacks on Jacinda for carrying out one of the greatest public health achievements since soap, is that you end up despising the woke who see a social justice crime every time they blink and Qanon lunatics who regurgitate quack science they’ve seen on a Facebook hate algorithm!
Just like in Don’t Look Up, I’m cheering on the asteroid and Covid!
We are our own worst enemies!
Can Omicron just hurry up and launch in NZ so we can start doing the real work of blaming each other on Twitter already?
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Iwas bemused at this report:
But Opposition parties are accusing the government of making up the plan as it goes along.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/459921/nzers-urged-to-prepare-for-potentially-thousands-of-daily-omicron-infections
It shows just how petty and vacuous the National Party is (and apparently whatever Party Rawiriri and his sidekick belong to).
The need to have a master plan based on current knowledge and reasoned modelling of the near future is essential, and that may require some revision. (Note that word includes ‘vision’ which is a pre-requisite). To keep themselves informed of changes and new and revised data is also essential for the government, and they need to act with logic on that, including preparing people for the need to be wary and of changes that will be awkward at least and upsetting ordinary life – quite likely. Self control will be needed, something that can be difficult for those that hang loose.
It shows just how petty and vacuous the National Party is (and apparently whatever Party Rawiriri and his sidekick belong to).
There may be some sort of ‘private understanding’ between the two already? Luxon would need TPM onside if he’s to get over the line in ’23, and he knows that. His words in reply to someone’s questions recently were very carefully phrased, as if something like that was in the works. It included his own ‘hope to learn Te Reo’, though that wasn’t the main bit.
Thanks, Trev. So, what time have you set for that meeting with the PM and Robbo to twist their arms about this? You know, to ensure the GST is REMOVED ASAP from all essential food, medical and hygiene products.
Of course you are about to do that Trev, because without such action, your encouraging words are all but m-e-a-n-i-n-g-l-e-s-s for so many people.
That’s a great tweet by Mallard. That’s what left-leasing politicians should be doing – thinking about, even helping, the people. The rest is rubbish.
Left leaning, now who would you be talking about then. Not one of them, not one.
I’ve been planning for the inevitable Omicron storm since December and advising family and friends to do the same and avoid the panic buying that we all know will soon unfold. Panic buying has occurred every time restrictions are put in place and on every occasion Ardern and Supermarket spokespeople have advised the public not to do it and how there is enough stock for everyone…..then not long after we see empty supermarket shelves, ongoing supply issues and less freedom in and around supermarkets.
Things will be even worse this time with many supermarket workers and people in the supply chain having to isolate after becoming a close contact.
I’m not a Mallard supporter but his advice on this occasion was 100% sound and prudent.
Rawiri Waititi unfortunately, is a divisive and entitled ignoramus with huge chips on both shoulders.
Don’t tell me, Ardern got a phone call from that balloon head at Pfizer who was concerned NZ wasn’t shifting enough of his product? Time for another scare campaign to coerce citizens into getting more ineffective vaccines, including peddling them to children, WITHOUT JUSTIFICATION?
It is rude to shout but it seems bing rude and unpleasant comes easily to the unvaxed and those against it. The mandates have been great as it has weeded out many of those in public service roles who think they are better than the rest and are selfish .
Trevor Sennitt,
Well said Trevor,
Respect.
Me too…. respect!
Jody In the very old pre-television days people used to turn out in droves to watch hangings. People can have the darndest ideas when you step back and look at them. Trying to save children’s lives and prevent them from getting sick from a virus that can lead to long covid and hard to treat outcomes is a good thing. That is unless parents are overwhelmed by their roles and need a chat to someone friendly and helpful over a cup of tea, which is quite possible. Or maybe, they are obsessives suffering from Munchhausen syndrome.
Someone who has MSP may purposely take action to make their child sick. They knowingly will expose the child to painful or risky medical procedures, even surgeries. They may deliberately create symptoms in a child. They can do this by withholding food, poisoning or suffocating the child, giving the child inappropriate medicines, or withholding prescribed medicines. Creating these situations can put the child at extreme risk.
https://familydoctor.org/condition/munchausen-syndrome-
Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSBP) is a mental health problem in which a caregiver makes up or causes an illness or injury in a person under his or her care, such as a child, an elderly adult, or a person who has a disability. Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy | Michigan Medicine
https://www.uofmhealth.org › health-library
“more ineffective vaccines,”
Oh dear, any proof these vaccines are ineffective or just more “fairies are real” syndrome. Proof Jody, proof?
Thanks for the replies, it is good to draw out the loonies captured by totalitarian capitalism. You have the gall to mock me you idiots, at the same time as big pharma and government are injecting adults and kids with experimental drugs, the same companies who have been convicted of serious offences in the past and who are trying to withhold their scientific data for a hundred years. If you support this lot you need your fucking head read.
You condemn big pharmac but there are millions of us alive today due to the work these companies do . They do it for profit but that is the way of this World and it keeps on turning. To a degree all advances are an experiment and some are great others not so much .Polio vaccine great therlidomide poor just like asbestos when it was invented it was hailed as a great break through now years later we discover it has pitfalls.
I suppose you may be found to be correct but will you live long enough to find out .?
This whole comment thread is an epic of bitching over a tweet, how bizzare. I have to support Rawiri’s p.o.v. if you live in Sth Auckland or Kawerau or Moerewa, for example, and you have ten kids in your house and there is no choice of supermarket (just a choice of liquor store) stocking up may not be that straightforward.
Yes, and more deprivation.
There is a gap in understanding…
How prudent was Mallard’s advice? 100% on the money.
What unfolded was absolutely predictable. Advice not to panic buy was ignored as has been the case at every opportunity since the pandemic started.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/127575280/mad-wave-of-supermarket-panicshopping-in-nz-was-over-in-three-hours
Limit of items per customer should be enforced instead of allowing / encouraging selfish greed.
I like Trev. Loved the way as an expert boxer he decked Tau Henare when he insulted his missus. even if it was most unparliamentary behaviour and caused Michael Cullen to hold his head in his arms and say something like.’oh no! WTF have you done now Trevor?’
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