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Pandemic? No, this is what I wear whenever I meet Donald Trump.
Pandemic? No, this is what I wear whenever I meet Donald Trump.
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April 4: Day 10 of living in lock-down…
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.
While the Pacific infection rates are still relatively low, many governments have been responding with panic, paranoia and creeping authoritarianism, especially in relation to freedom of information, media independence and constructive and accurate communication, so vital in these critical times.
…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.
For 150 years, capitalism has always been a system that breeds inequality, racism, war, oppression and exploitation. That’s enough for me to want to end this system. Recent decades have revealed the fact that this system is also incapable of coexisting with the needs of the planet itself as a consequence of global warming and climate change.
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.
Malcolm Evans – The Health Minister
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.