National vs Labour: When Omicron comes around

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Martyn Bradbury
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There’s a man goin’ ’round, takin’ names
And he decides who to free and who to blame
Everybody won’t be treated all the same
There will be a golden ladder reachin’ down
When the man comes around
The hairs on your arm will stand up
At the terror in each sip and in each sup
Will you partake of that last offered cup?
Or disappear into the potter’s ground
When the man comes around?
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers
One hundred million angels singin’
Multitudes are marchin’ to the big kettledrum
Voices callin’ and voices cryin’
Some are born and some are dyin’
Alpha and Omega’s kingdom come
And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree
The virgins are all trimmin’ their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree
It’s hard for thee to kick against the pricks
‘Til Armageddon, no shalam, no shalom
Then the father hen will call his chickens home
The wise man will bow down before the throne
And at his feet, they’ll cast the golden crowns
When the man comes around

Omicron comes around.

National & ACT are singing from the same hymn sheet, the “Labour-haven’t-done-enough- to-prepare-for-Omicron” list of classic hits.

It’s the usual tedious list of complaints about a health system that is actually moving as fast as it can. All National’s bitching is set against the low mortality and hospitalization rates that only back up Labour’s credentials of Covid crisis leadership.

Luxon says if he were PM he would be on the phone to every DHB daily to check if they need anything for Omicron.

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There are 20 DHBs.

Let’s say he speaks to each for 10mins.

That’s over 3hours each day he would be calling DHBs.

I’m concerned at Luxon’s time management.

Jacinda cancelling her own wedding is the embodiment of the self sacrifice we are all being called on to make.

Labour’s past political wins for its management however are now a weakness with a variant that can spread as fast as Omicron. Previous successes are about to swept aside as Omicron hits.

The Greens have made an excellent suggestion of ensuring suitable masks are made available for free!

The shockwave of real levels of sickness and death will stun a complacent Shire.

The country will become delirious with illness and fear and in our feverish malaise we will turn to false prophets like Brian Tamaki, Christopher Luxon, Mike Hosking and David Seymour, who for a split second of illness induced insanity, will sound reasonable.

Such will be the depths of generational poverty that Omicron will exploit, the solutions promised by the Political  architects of that inequality will sound like hope.

NZ will be blighted by this as Omicron exposes the inequality that we have all fastidiously ignored.

The misery we are about to endure will rip our egalitarian facade aside.

Don’t expect this to end till September.

That’s hospitality, tourism and MIQ hit for the next 8 months.

Brace for impact.

The virgins are all trimmin’ their wicks

 

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129 COMMENTS

  1. Luton sounds reasonable because he’s only been in Parliament 5 minutes and he doesn’t know that the Nats ruthlessly lead the way in trying to destroy our free health service, leaving it struggling to care for the folk who once needed it most, and still do. He’s just a bald ignoramus, but Saintly Bill English deserves to be smote for his efforts here; God forbid Tamaki gets any crooker, or he could be seen as a martyr instead of the charlatan that he is.

    It’s still a mystery, tho’, why DJ’s have been given preferential entry to New Zealand over and above health workers desperately needed right throughout the whole country, and the msm should be asking Wellington why this is so.

    • He doesn’t sound reasonable to me – creepy-as, divisive, Poly-ticks over people’s lives any day of the week.

      • Kheala No, he doesn’t sound reasonable to me either, but he may sound reasonable to those sort of people who actually liked J Key, who was as creepy as a childhood ogre, but those Fairfax femmes swooned over him, and the Nats preference for leaders straight from the pages of the Grimms Bros is a most peculiar phenomenon. I did meet one man who liked Key, ex-army, perhaps shell-shocked, poor man, but Luxon looks too much like an ostrich egg to be taken seriously.

        • Is this the start of a revolt against bald heads and perhaps ponytails and luxurious hair hanging down like the end of a horse? But ‘baldism’ is a possible new distaste to be monitored by the PTB.

    • How does Chris Luxon fit in phone calls to DHB’s, when he’s on the phone 23/7 to his lying mentor Sir John Key? And in case Wild Katipo or others want a citation about Key’s lies https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2016/06/04/435-lies-by-john-key/

      We thought we were getting rid of Dirty Politics, by kicking Judith Collins to the kerb, but the National Party just can’t help itself and that’s why ACT’s David Seymour is the more credible opposition.

      And if you’re a Labour supporter , Chris Luxon, John Key’s glove-puppet, is the gift that keeps on giving.

  2. This round of Covid I think the government have got it about as right as it can be. You would have to be Liz Gunn or live under a rock to not know everything ends in vaccination or probable serious illness or worse. Time to let us be adults. More big government in this area is creating friction that is counter-productive.

    The RAT supplies aren’t ideal but nor is the test and there is no word on who pays. I can see people manning it up at home if getting a test is too difficult. Not ideal but realistic.

    It’s an unavoidable storm that will pass through, the only question is, for how long.

    But for his first major 2022 outing, Luxon was awful. Say something pointless Chris, but try not to sound as pointless as David Seymour. We all know if that pair were in government we would have been NSW, unnecessary death and suffering based on the business lunar cycle and freedom of choice and an ignorant belief that if you deny this disease is what it is, we can be “normal” again.

    Judith may be gone but the same old same old persists.

  3. National and Act’s default position through covid is an ‘all care and no responsibility’ position. To date that has been a losing position. Time will tell if that changes under Ominshambles.

    The big question should be why Northland turned ‘Orange’ for a couple of nanoseconds’ and why the PM was allegedly up there on the weekend. From the looks of it omnishambles has been out there for at least a week and from the government communications they bloody well knew.

    • Still doing your best to sound relevant with irrelevant and confused logic as your starting point old boy… The fact that the tories (old mossbacks, and young fascists alike) are still only capable of playing politics with our lives is all I need to know when it comes to who I will trust with my health.. The current government haven’t gotten everything right, but they are still concerned first and foremost with the survival of their constituents… this we know, as well as we know that the tories would have had us all nicely thinned out by now, and would be praised by the business lobby for their efforts on behalf of the economy, while trying to import thousands of people to do the work that kiwis used to do before succumbing… And here’s me thinking that money can’t vote.. Why, money is a mich better constituent than humans ever were.. No surprises the tories would choose that over untidy, and annoying humans… Who needs them anyway.. We have MONEY…

  4. Saint Jacinda preserve us oh yes it’s so true and we’d all love to stock up for days that are blue but then half of our workers will now have to quit because reasons and needles and that kind of shit so no one’s around to do menial tasks, no cleaners or checkouts no nurses in masks, oh who’ll pick the fruit and the crops and the grain? why all the restrictions and who’s Sir Ply Chayne? (just asking for a friend)

    • Like the poetry Ginny, – Just look over the ditch – nsw/ vic/ most of the East Coast massively hit by Sir Ply crock-up.

  5. I chuckled when Luxon said if he were in-charge he would be on the phone daily to the DHB’s finding out what they need; with 20 DHB’s he must have more hours in his day than the rest of us. Does he not trust his Covid shadow minister? I wonder if he would find anytime to deal with such things as the Tongan emergency, the housing crisis, child poverty etc.

    • “Tongan emergency, the housing crisis, child poverty etc.”

      Has Ardern found time to deal to any of that?

      • You’ve hit an own goal.

        1x Superman/ woman alone is not able to mend the world’s problems, even without the massive cries we face today.

      • Well actually MB the PM has fronted on all those; I am sure she would have loved the opportunity to devote all her time to those issues, but Covid, and those that turned the pandemic into a political opportunity and those that have not adhered to simple rules had other plans.

  6. Luxon was absolutely nauseating yesterday. His actions at least proved what we can expect from this eggplant.

    Simon Bridges ridiculed virtually everything Ardern said and did while he was the Smurf Party leader. He was the epitome of a dog barking at every passing car. Most of the alternative plans he put forward would have been a disaster for NZ. “We should follow Australia with bla bla bla”… nek minute Australia is in deep shit. A Facebook post he put up attacking Ardern was not well received and contributed to his own downfall.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/121169737/coronavirus-simon-bridges-receives-huge-backlash-to-facebook-post-criticising-lockdown-extension

    Along comes Todd Muller sayin he will lead differently. He promised not to attack / undermine for the sake of doing so. The Smurfs hated the popularity Ardern was enjoying over NZ’s Covid response and saw undermining it at any cost as the key to them getting back into power. Nek minute Muller’s troops are setting up bullshit attack crusades. We had Michael Woodhouse claiming a fictitious homeless man had bluffed his way into a 5 star isolation hotel courtesy of the taxpayer. Zero evidence was ever produced in what was obviously pure bullshit.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300037580/homeless-man-bluffed-his-way-into-5star-isolation-hotel-claims-michael-woodhouse

    Then we had Woodhouse again and Chris Bishop with their big scoop hit job on two ladies released from M.I.Q early on compassionate grounds hugging on the side of an Auckland motorway. This attack on NZ’s Covid response especially in the area of compassionate leave from M.I.Q being granted was changed and as a result many families were unable to be with loved ones just prior to and as they died.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-two-women-let-out-after-national-mp-lobbied-for-release/3UKSR572OV7GOGKQJLSCSHPORU/

    Then we had Hamish Walker leaking a list of personal details of people with Covid to the media. Yet another National Party hit job intended to destroy confidence and undermine NZ’s response to Covid.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/420925/no-other-national-mps-received-leaked-details-todd-muller

    Nek minute Muller is having issues as the Smurfs treasonous attack plan had backfired on them yet again.

    Will mostly skip over Chucky other than to say she absolutely hated Ardern having the stage most days to inform NZ of Covid updates. She saw her own chance of being PM slipping away so demanded the opportunity to share the stage at Parliament in person so her own name was up in lights. Her own needs and ambitions clearly outweighed the greater good of NZ.

    https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/opinion/barry-soper-ardern-vs-collins-on-the-convening-of-parliament/

    We then fast forward to yesterday BEHM ….Boiled Egg Head Man. His performance yesterday was a pathetic attempt to be seen and be relevant regardless of cost. Look at me, look at me ala Pope Brian Tamaki.

    Many of us don’t agree with the Traffic Light System but appreciate we are stuck with it for now. We also understand compliance with the rules during a pandemic is going to be critically important with getting on top of Omicron and minimizing the carnage. Non compliance has clearly been an issue along the way and contributed to the length of the 2021 Auckland lockdown. The Smurfs have played a key role in that by undermining almost every plan put in place by the Government. They have played their part in NZ now being more divided than I’ve seen since the 81 Springbok tour as much as the 2021 online misinformation campaign has.

    I appreciate Opposition Parties are not there to be Government cheerleaders but rules need to be put in place preventing playing politics during a pandemic. They should be free to disagree with anything the Government says or does but not if the aim is to obviously undermine when that is the last thing NZ needs at the time. That message has skipped right over Luxon.

    Yesterday we endured a longer than usual but needed Press Conference from Ardern. I certainly haven’t missed seeing politicians over the summer.

    Not long after Ardern’s marathon had finished Luxon desperate to be relevant called his own media briefing. Yes, he supported booster shots but was that needed after Ardern had just finished saying pretty much the same thing? Then he stated NZ was not ready for Omicron. Really? NZ has used it’s advantage of seeing what’s happening elsewhere with Omicron to form our response. Our hospitals will be overwhelmed but that situation has been with us for years and can’t be put at Ardern’s door as she’s made considerably more progress with hospitals / nurses since 2020 than had been made for many years.

    Then Luxon attacked the traffic light system again. What was the purpose of that other than to undermine the very tool that will be hugely important in our initial response to Omicron? Will Luxon’s attack indirectly encourage further dissent and non compliance of the rules? Absolutely yes.

    • Hey Thinking Man – absolutely superb. Can I just add that in his latest vacuous smug statement Luxon, just like Judith Collins, said nothing of significance and it meant nothing other than highlighting its nonsense.

    • My 14 seconds of in-depth analysis on One Network News last night (23/01/2022), in reality, was insightful, and in reality, showed the deficiencies in Ardern’s response to Omnicron Covid. I think, and have been told by advisers, that getting my advice on opposition to Omnicron Covid from Sir John Key is valid. He was one of New Zealand’s most popular Prime Ministers.

      There have been some hiccups with the messages from SJK arriving on the fax machine, but the reality, we are a National Party that has been stung by leaked emails. Scott Morrison’s WeChat account was hacked and faxes are way more secure because there’s just the sender and receiver. Plus, reality has shown that using carrier pigeon post is very sketchy also, after the Speckled Jim affair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKhdJd1Nu74

      You have given my namesake a hard-time for wanting to ring DHB’s, but when I was running Air New Zealand, I used to ring pilots, and other executives to get perspectives on issues that would affect the rank and file workers at Air New Zealand. In reality, we are all a team. There’s no “I” in reality, in team, I mean.

      In reality, it is important to show a different reality, to the reality that the mainstream media is depicting that Jacinda creates in her, fake news, false reality. The reality she creates is 4th in the developed countries of the OECD. In reality, she probably spread this reality so that she could be a martyr and put off her wedding.

      Time for New Zealand to wake up and get out of this dream reality of safety that we have been living in for the last 2 years. The reality is that National is better than ACT when it comes to acting on our actions to create a better reality than the fake reality that Labour is really creating with help from the virus.

      Yours faithfully
      The other Chris Luxon (from Christchurch)

    • Then he stated NZ was not ready for Omicron.

      If the Nats had been in power, with their “Open the gates!” “Open the gates” demands, Omicron would be rampant, the hospitals would be in crisis already, and some who are reading this now would not be here!

  7. Actions speak louder etc. and the overwhelming majority of New Zealanders have been vaccinated, and are getting boosted, and will get their kids vaccinated. In poll after poll a majority would like to see borders stay closed/tightly monitored.

    With Omicron the lockdowns will be voluntary at this stage, and many of us are just not going to public establishments or entertainments till the trends are apparent.

    It will be sweet indeed to see the cafe owners and other SMEs bleat their arses off–and blame who? this time…the Govt. is out of that frame for now.

  8. “…a health system that is actually moving as fast as it can ”

    They’ve had 2 years to increase the number of ICU beds and achieved nothing. Was the task given to the same ‘working group’ that is building the light rail down Dominion Road?

  10. Luxon opens his mouth and flaps his gob for the sake of it, saying nothing constructive, offering no beneficial or useful solutions towards protecting NZers.

  11. Luxon would be shitting himself if he was PM now. NZ Govt is the biggest company in NZ by a 100 fold and not many of its managers actually listen to orders. The Nats should have hired Tova O’Brian for PM to out Cindy, Cindy. 3 year contract, buy out existing gardening clauses with the eggplant writing the speeches. Sorted.

    • If Tova goes through these next two months to stand up on her own, without the backing of either party, she will have earned my total respect. Both parties are bound to be making offers to her. I hope she stays strong…

  12. No Covid cases in ICU in last 2 days, Hospitals can surge ICU capacity up to 300 in the worst scenario – quite simple. I’d rather listen to the health experts instead of Tory conspiratorial theories they get from Qnon. We should all be thanking Jacinda, the Labour party and the scientists and health department advisers for saving the lives of thousands of Aotearoans. NZ 52 dead, UK 150,000 dead from Covid.

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