Imagine how popular a closing the border position would be amongst the working classes who have been swamped by mass immigration, scarcity of housing and infrastructure stress.
The speed & possible size of this Covid outbreak in NZ must end the delusion that we are opening our borders anytime this year or next year – even vaccinated we can’t simply see the deaths of vulnerable people as an acceptable collateral damage for business or tourism.
Frightened people queuing to buy food don’t need to be harassed like this.
I don’t blame people for being ‘vaccine hesitant’ because this is all scary stuff but I do blame people like Billy TK and his leadership team who manipulate this fear for personal power and money.
National and ACT can go on and on about reopening the borders and the Government can cave into business interests and promise it to them, but the millisecond we get an outbreak we will be forced back into lockdown again because we don’t have the capacity for the sick and the dead.
Go hard or go to Australia.
The whitewash Stuff.co.nz are doing to justify our occupation of Afghanistan is Fox News level propaganda – it’s like the anti war movement in NZ 20 years ago never existed.
Kia kaha folks. We’ve got this.
Malpass and Clark will justify how moral NZ was to agree with this occupation, but those of us who fought their war thirst 20 years ago will remind them of how wrong they always were.
We need to spend far less time strangling free speech and criminalizing parents and way more time on the real issues.