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While for some New Zealanders being stopped by police from driving their Audi or Mercedes on route to their holiday home is their biggest problem, in South Auckland other New Zealanders are living with 10 people in a 3 bedroom house and wondering how long the supermarket line will be today.
I thoughoughly enjoyed talking with Michael who has good practical advice to share with the owners of Small Businesses keen to know what the can do to survive this difficult time
Just before Easter: the above sign, advertising N95 masks in an Auckland retail outlet approved by government as ‘essential service’.
It’s part of my job as an investigative journalist to ask inconvenient questions. 4 years ago I asked the question Who Owns New Zealand Now?
I write this column half way through the historic COVID-19 lockdown. Given the daily rate of change, I can hardly imagine what our professional and personal lives will look like when it ends.
Today I had the privilege of talking on Skype with Dr Ganesh Nana who is the Research Director of BERL (Business and Economic Research Ltd).
In my opinion; the police are in a safe pair of hands.
I asked them about how nurses were being treated before the crisis and now…. and what they hoped for once we have put this pandemic behind us.
People are using their lockdown time to speculate about what the ‘new normal’ will look life after the COVIT-19 crisis is over. Nobody asked me but I’ll tell you anyway what the new normal will be and how it will not be different from the old normal, or ‘business as usual’, unless we stop it with a social revolution.
As BOMBER’s 4 April blog attests; he received a whacking 350 likes from 4102 views, when I last checked the monitor….