Māori are prone to respiratory disease at far higher levels than Pākehā, this pandemic will hit them hardest as it also targets people with chronic illness, which Māori again are over-represented in.
In the shadow of the pandemic, Abortion was finally made legal in NZ.
I think we might be too dumb to infect by this virus.
We should applaud her courage, this is an extraordinary decision made at a time of immense danger to the country.
I appreciate I’ve been a bit of an outlier on this pandemic and from the beginning was warning this had all the ingredients of a public health crisis and economic meltdown.
Bridges only hope is that the virus leaks into NZ and he can trace it back to a perceived incompetence that he can claim was a lack of leadership.
Someone needs to sit Simon down, pour him a really strong whiskey, let him have a couple of slugs, bitch slap him with your ring finger, and state in a very clear calm manner…
7 months until the 2020 election and on the most recent polling, the next likely Government is National ACT.
The Government are woefully proceeding with the Free Speech vs Hate Speech legislation before the election and they are conducting it in secret with the Human Rights Commission…
As TDB has pointed out from the beginning, this had all the ingredients of an uncontrollable pandemic that will deeply damage the economy and create a public health nightmare.