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  1. Hail Mary’s in place of actual planning does not make us grateful. The woefully under prepared health system has seen its meagre resources directed at Covid rather than a hundred other lethal diseases with very sick people getting booted out of hospital at the prospect of Covid capacity requirements, and all its political ramifications. That does not make us grateful.

    By August 2021 NZ ICU capacity being vaguely better than Mexico did not make anyone grateful especially when it meant everything else was parked just in case covid got out of hand.

    Red lining medical staff until they leave does not make me grateful.

    Having a “plan” post 2020 so bad of our infamous leaky MIQ’s keeping Delta out plus level 4 frozen lockdowns does not make me grateful.

    We got very lucky and yet we didn’t in so many other areas because of the laissez-faire nature of this government’s attitude to thinking forward. In fact where we land today had far more to do with fate and the primeval fear of political polls more than anything else!

  2. “will we be happy or will we have given up….” There are far bigger problems facing the World than covid, so I’m picking we will not be happy under either National or Labour. However I am sure voting Right wing is the worse option for CC, Social inequity, the new economy and (believe it or not) law and order.

  3. Our vaccination rates may well even top 100% when you can rock up and get vaxed 10 times in a day.
    World leading.

    1. But that man must now be kept under observation, because he should show any harmful side-effects 10 times worse. He could even die ten times! The anti-vaxxers would at last have some real evidence!

  4. Happiness, understanding. Will the wider population ever have them? Do the two go together – oil and water perhaps? Pursuit of happiness can turn to complacency which can result in determined ignorance. Attempting to grapple with that lack of understanding can lead to unhappiness and hurt.

    I feel hurt as I look at the reality of what people are doing and thinking in the world, and how I fail to be as responsible as I could and should be, according to my own beliefs without others’ fevered urgings!
    MB’s post about hurt feelings and freedom of speech (also Amnesty International) is important.
    https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2021/12/12/sooooo-more-mental-illness-than-white-supremacy-crackers-how-will-nz-msm-cope-without-woke-narrative/

    Then past Covid, towards climate change and thinking of vastly rich thinking of turning science fiction into fact, and mining the moon etc. Who is in charge of the Earth? Does the answer lie in the soil? Are we living in an alternative version of The Day of the Triffids where people’s vision is all right but they can’t process in their minds what they see?

    Did Aldous Huxley say that people would become slaves and embrace their slavehood? Active minds are still out there. https://www.metabunk.org/threads/a-false-quote-attributed-to-aldous-huxley.6761/

  5. Lets not forget that National would more than likely never have gone, or very reluctantly, and too slowly, gone to a level 4 setting in the first instance.
    Then, once all the dirty hard work was done by Labour, they wanted to “open up” at 70% double vaccinated.
    This would have equated to approximately 10,000 deaths and many more very sick people.
    A month or so later, Collins and National announced that we should “open Up” at 80% . A few weeks further on their figure was changed to 80- 85%. Then 85 -90.
    However, they pronounced, with all their wisdom , that New Zealand had “no show” of being 90% double vaccinated by the end of the year.
    For fuck’s sake. With that kind of idiocy, can you imagine what a parallel response by National, had they been in charge, would have looked like?
    Well the answer is 12,000 miles away.

    1. Wrong…do the math….properly….
      The U.K is approx.12 times the population of N.Z.
      Divide 142,898 deaths by 12….
      There’s your answer..11,908 deaths
      The calculations were very accurate..
      Stay off facebook, Rumble and Telegram..
      They are full of nutters..

  6. Jacinda is a useless control freak mad on power. Splitting the country on race for power well housing, inequality, child poverty all get worse.
    The sooner she resigns in disgrace the better.

    1. Thankfully she has split the Qanon theorists, anti mandate, anti vaccine(the vaccine is worse than the disease types) away from us sane Kiwi’s. You should be grateful. See Antforce above comment…

  7. So whilst Jacinda and Labour Keepcalmandcarryon, who will Nationals new leader after Xmas be when Luxon resigns, I hear Jamie Lee Ross is unresigning like Todd Muller. I also hear Mark Richardson’s looking for a Christian hard right political party so should fit right in.

  8. Unconditionally locking a million New Zealanders out of the country for two years is gonna hurt your numbers. I for one will never vote Labour again. They are dead to me. Especially her. She can jump off a bridge.

  9. Instead of comparing us to countries under the yoke of Western corporatism why don’t you compare NZ with India, 34.5 deaths / 100,000 or that powerhouse of medical science Bangladesh 17 deaths/100,000. And they did it without destroying their economies. These countries are not islands with a minuscule population but overpopulated semi developed countries and they have achieved incredible results against Covid 19. I wont tell you how because that is forbidden in this shining light of free speech and democracy , NZ.

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