Waatea News Column: This Pandemic will test us as a People and as a Nation
With this Pandemic, we are about to enter a once in a generation unique crisis that will test us as a People and as a Nation.
With this Pandemic, we are about to enter a once in a generation unique crisis that will test us as a People and as a Nation.
It’s funny watching the light weight casual current affairs offerings that the deregulated infotainment industry of NZ vomit up with glee struggle to try & cover something as serious as a pandemic.
This Government was founded in 2017 under the shadow of an expected market correction so the Government does have a blueprint as to what to do if the opportunity of a crisis presents, so who should Labour save now the recession is here?
For the first time since the danger of this pandemic started to become glaringly apparent, I am feeling hopeful that this Government have urgently reset the safety parameters of this virus and are finally appreciating the enormity of what we are facing.
I had a list of things to do this week.
On top of that list was write a 1 year reflection blog on the March 15th white supremacy terror atrocity in Christchurch.
I put it off.
All week.
The results from the armed Police trial have been made public and the numbers suggest a terrifying failure of public policy.
With a market in free fall, Trump double bounced the dead cat bounce with an announcement of a national emergency just before the markets closed to go into the weekend with the masquerade of recovery.
The time for pretending that criticism of the pandemic is racist and that this won’t be a big deal as our woke activists on Twitter have been screaming since January is over.
The Black Swan is here you fools.
Just because you are on the opposite side of the road, doesn’t mean your free speech has been censored, that is a fallacious argument by Seymour.
WHO have now declared an official pandemic, that means the expectation is that this virus will get out into our communities and we are looking at mass sickness and a huge leap in deaths.