Waatea News Column: Letting beneficiaries suffer during a pandemic is no solution
We have much to be grateful about regarding Jacinda’s calm and graceful leadership during this latest crisis.
Martyn Bradbury
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MEDIA WATCH: Hands up who loves Adam Smith’s ungloved invisible hand? NZ Woman’s Day, New Zealand Woman’s Weekly, The Australian Women’s Weekly, the Listener, North & South, Next, Metro, Kia Ora, Home NZ and Your Home & Garden
The media landscape has been mutilated by Facebook and Google and because the Government has been too intellectually cowardly to implement taxation against those Trans-national Titans to directly fund journalism, this pandemic is becoming the last straw to break this seasons camel hair back.
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MEDIA WATCH – Mike Hosking hates Jacinda so much, he’s actually siding with the virus now
Mike’s love language would be forced labour camps.
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Trump’s sudden horrific desire to start war with Iran while you are preoccupied with the Pandemic
The monstrous incompetence of Trump’s response to the pandemic is bad enough, but what he is secretly planning in the background while all our attention is on the pandemic is bordering on psychotic…
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A nation of ‘Ok Karen’ narcs – Kiwis love the taste of jackboot
There’s an authority worship within the NZ pysche who yearn for the taste of the jackboot over others.
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How amazing has Jacinda been and why she might lose the 2020 election
National may not get the highest Party vote on election night, but if NZF & Greens don’t make it, National + ACT could still become the Government.
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MEDIA WATCH: Mike Hosking’s latest douchebag rant
If Jacinda Ardern today announced that she had personally developed a Vaccine in her bathroom at home overnight and had resurrected Elvis, Frank Sinatra and Jesus Christ to front the public health campaign Mike would describe it as, “An Incompetent Government desperately trying to wrap itself up in cheap publicity”.
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MEDIA WATCH: Come on David Farrar – don’t be a dick
Stop being a Dick David.
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The second tsunami of this pandemic will be an economic Chernobyl – why we need a new Aotearoa Green Deal
The realisation that we need economic sovereignty to empower a functioning State that has the resources to protect us from external shocks in a world being defined by external shocks can have powerful consequences politically, culturally and economically.
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We have to be honest about a 6 week lockdown
4 weeks lockdown is not going to be enough and we need to start admitting that so citizens are prepared.