Can Jacinda survive the Covid fear monster or is she destined to lose 2023?
People were queuing at 1.30am in Auckland for Covid tests.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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We can’t make vaccinations mandatory so rule that out now
A liberal progressive democracy can triumph at the height of a pandemic while maintaining our cherished civil liberties.
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So Covid could have escaped from the Wuhan Lab after all?
The NZ mainstream media have righteously hated on Trump and his disinformation campaigns but the irony that he might have been right all along about the real possibility of the Wuhan Lab leaking the virus is a body blow to establishment media credibility.
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Judith reshuffles deck chairs on the Titanic (Hey Jude, don’t make it bad)
Bishop’s loyalty is now up for grabs at a time when Judith needs every single vote to hold her naked Caucus majority.
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The real vile, malicious & spiteful reason why National and ACT are refusing a virtual Parliament
This isn’t about public health, democracy or accountability, it’s a sick game to pretend Jacinda is a dictator.
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How many NZers are ACT & National prepared to allow die from Covid?
National are currently pushing for 70% – that would see 30 000+ hospitalizations and 3000+ dead.
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So what happens after this Delta lockdown is over? 6 things Labour must do or else
Delta will become endemic, Labour either move heaven and earth to implement the 6 points or they will be judged by their current failures and not their previous successes.
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No new ICU beds? W-H-A-T?!?!? Neoliberal dogma as social policy has failed us? Who woulda thunk it???
Let me see if I can get this completely fucking straight – despite almost 500 days to prepare and hundreds of millions pumped into our health sector we still have fuck all ICU beds than when we entered this Covid emergency???
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Delta Lockdown: Political Winners & Losers
There we all were, lounging around in Fortress Aotearoa like there wasn’t a global pandemic happening. Cruising the Shire without fully vaccinated border staff, refusal to build larger MIQ facilities and a devil may care approach to ICU beds propped up by a dangerously underfunded public health system.
What could possibly go wrong?
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This isn’t Tikanga, it’s Critical Race Theory – Woke scramble to set narrative in Judge vs Oranga Tamariki fiasco
It is extraordinary in the extreme that the identity politics devotees will attempt to ignore the deceit used to remove a Maori child from a white step-family to paint this as a intersectionist power struggle between the heteronormative white cis male patriarchy and post MeToo feminism.