Life in Lock Down: Day 10
April 4: Day 10 of living in lock-down…
Most Recent Blogs
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A time for new values?
As with the myth about economic growth being a rising tide that lifts all ships, it’s also not true that the falling tide effects all workers equally. Some of the CEOs on multi-million-dollar salaries who were paid – and failed- to anticipate business disruption, face a cut to their incomes, but workers lose their whole livelihoods.
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American economic meltdown the new pandemic
…the economic impact of the pandemic is the second wave of this tsunami and we urgently need to be preparing for this the moment the public health threat passes.
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Crisis capitalism is on the move and it’s not going to be pretty
Big business is dead keen to get us all back to “business as usual” in quick time with the government priority to put the corporate sector first. We must resist this, not only for our own personal and community health, but also because there is no intention to shift from a business as usual agenda.
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TDB lockdown tips & hacks – Monday 6th April
Todays gratitude – Shout out Sunday to the children who suddenly have their routine interrupted and are living with us under our nervous roofs. Their world has been turned up side down and they need our reassurances more than ever. Their joy is our hope.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday – 5th April 2020
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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MEDIA WATCH: Hooton, Gareth Morgan & Hoskings’ Death Cult Capitalism make them Vichy-Chamberlain cowards
The same right wing trolls screaming at Jacinda for shutting down the country this week were last month screaming at her for not shutting down the country last week.
Their criticism is sophistry masquerading as commentary and should be rejected with the force of projectile vomit.
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So China lied about the virus and bought up all the protective clothing – can we criticise them yet or is that still xenophobic?
When the first news of the Wuhan virus started circulating, an odd thing happened. Woke activists online in NZ felt any criticism of the virus was in fact racist and xenophobic.
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GUEST BLOG: The Lockdown With Bryan Bruce Day 9 : Beware of the Bauers
When are we going to learn that foreign capital doesn’t give a damn about us?
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Waatea News Column: Where the Waipareira Trust pandemic response goes, NZ should follow
One of the biggest dangers we have right now with the pandemic is the lack of effective community-wide testing.