National are lying to you about Covid review so why trust their next Kangaroo Court?

Bullshit…

…let’s be clear, the second inquiry was very clear in saluting Labour’s leadership over Covid…

“Overall, this report concludes that Aotearoa New Zealand did well in responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. On the whole, the decisions taken and methods used during the Covid-19 response were considered and appropriate”

 

…and yet the corporate media coverage and National Party spin is the end of the world with Billions ‘missing’.

We decided to work together for the well being of our public health and our nation over profit margins and that is why the Political Right must salt the earth by demonising Jacinda.

The Death Cult Capitalists will never forgive her for putting your lives before their profits and so the corporate media spin the way their masters demand!

NZ’s Government decided that to simply be open with our people over the reality of the situation and to collectively work together was the best course of action.

In China they welded doors shut, in NZ we had a 1pm briefing and everyone was paid to stay home.

We had some of the the lowest death rates, we had some of the least restrictions and we came out of Covid better than almost anyone else on the planet.

For those results, Jacinda has been damned by a small but violent minority and she has to live in Australia because it isn;t safe to do so here.

Her actions saved 20 000, but they were mostly Boomers who all  voted for Winston, so no good deed goes unpunished.

Was the Auckland lockdown too long? The Report says ‘Yes’, by 4 days!

Was there a lack of communication over rare Vaccine reactions for under 18 year olds. The Report says yes.

But the Report also said that…

“Overall, this report concludes that Aotearoa New Zealand did well in responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. On the whole, the decisions taken and methods used during the Covid-19 response were considered and appropriate”

 

…it was a once in a century pandemic with a novel virus.

Labour led with mana and dignity.

This revisionist spin job to match the bitterness of a vocal minority on social media is beneath us and the sacrifice we collectively made here.

That’s why National are being so disingenuous and highlights how biased and bad faith their next inquiry is going to be!

 

Who Are Athanasios Orphanides and David Archer?

The people Willis has appointed to lead this new Covid Inquisition are Dr. Athanasios Orphanides and David Archer, and who are they?

Surprise, surprise, Atlas Network Acolytes…

The Atlas Network Connection

Orphanides appears linked to Atlas Network, the alleged fossil fuel, tobacco, libertarian and conservative network Canadian, Australian and UK media have covered at length.

He is a Professor at MIT but is featured on Atlas Network’s Manhattan Institute’s website1 where you can “schedule an interview” with him, as well as being a member of their Shadow Open Market Committee.

Orphanides is also frequently cited by Atlas Network libertarian think tank journalsand himself writes for Atlas Network’s Cato Institute, quoting David Seymour’s libertarian idol Milton Friedman within those articles.

 

…Willis has appointed Far Right Goons to review our Covid spending.

Far Right Goons who consider public health and public education to be crimes against Milton Friedman.

A Report Timed Just Before the Election

This is a farce and a political stunt manufactured to get then most right wing perspective possible.

It would be as pointless as a debate between Willis and Ruth Richardson, this Covid Inquisition Kangaroo Court has all the intellectual worth of the sound of one hand clapping.

This is an outrageous waste of time and resource to create a biased political weapon.

Is This Scrutiny — Or Political Theatre?

No one from the Left should agree to appear.

This is McCarthyism in jandals.

Pandemic scrutiny matters. Economic transparency matters. But so does intellectual honesty. If this inquiry is about learning lessons, it should be broad, balanced and forward-looking. If it is about rewriting history through an ideological filter weeks before an election, voters deserve to know that too.

Don’t allow the Right to manipulate your Covid sacrifice into something dark.