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The new reality of a quarantine border needs urgent attention because with the pandemic raging globally, we can’t let down our guard. This means that we need an urgent rethink of the quarantine border infrastructure, immigration and tourism.
If we want to really blame anyone for these failures we need to look beyond Jacinda, Bloomfield and even the MoH – we need to look at us.
I can’t work out what is a bigger treat to the planet – climate change, this pandemic or Trump himself.
The new Horizon Poll that was taken during some of the quarantine breaches and it has shown no bounce at all for Muller…
Between now and the election, National will be a Party of Ghouls, always wanting the country to fail and become plague ridden so that they can blame Jacinda and win power, even if all that meant was that they ruled an economic plague wasteland swollen with grief and ruin.
If Nigel can be sacked for a false sexual assault allegation published on The Spinoff , then what the Christ do incompetent Public Health staff who allow the plague back into the country have to do to get sacked?
These National MPs have no honour.
There’s nothing I love more than a good old fashioned comeuppance.
The caution Jacinda has used in opening up the country has been partly driven by knowledge of how threadbare our public health system is and this lack of strict procedures during quarantine that have been recently exposed is the last straw, hence Jacinda sending in the no nonsense Military to have oversight of quarantines at the border.
This flair up is a reminder that this election is different, that peoples vulnerability and gratitude and anger can all be triggered if voters feel that their sacrifice has been taken for granted by incompetence.