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.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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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.
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NZ has an obligation to rebuild Afghanistan and take thousands of refugees
We have an obligation to raise funds to rebuild Afghanistan and take thousands in refugees.
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There is no Plan B – Exterminate Delta! Exterminate Delta!
The grief given NZ for putting the people before money by international critics says more about them than it does us.
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Late Stage Capitalism Lockdown: Postcards & silver linings
Nothing sums up late stage capitalism better than watching all our TV current affairs hosts not hosting their shows because their MC corporate side hustles all became places of interest with Delta.
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Oranga Tamariki implosion: Labour should thank their stars NZers are distracted by Lockdown
To attempt to intervene in the sacrosanctness of our independent judiciary so racist practices by Oranga Tamariki can be hidden is so disbelievingly outside the norms of our system it’s almost a Donald Trump level molestation of due process.