GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – A shot in the arm for our economy
Had my first Covid jab last week.
Big shout out to the great team at Westgate Vaccination Centre! Thank you for your efficient and caring – and yes, painless – process.
Feeling very privileged and grateful to be living in Aotearoa/New Zealand during this global pandemic.
The vaccination centres are busy , the roll out is happening. We’ll get there.
Let Victoria be a warning – we don’t want to be in lockdown again. Keep up the good work – washing hands, use masks on public transport and contact tracing .
Stay safe. Look after each other
Kia kaha
PS Anti- vaxxers please find somewhere else to post your opinions
Bryan Bruce is one of NZs most respected documentary makers and public intellectuals who has tirelessly exposed NZs neoliberal economic settings as the main cause for social issues.
Once everyone is vaccinated then what?
Fling the doors open and let the world AND COVID in?
How about the 5% of people the vaccine doesn’t work on?
How about the new variants that will flood in and could beat the vaccine?
NZ does not understand that tourism and travel is gone for a long time. Queenstown will be a ghost town soon.
NZ had better come up with another way of making money because tourism is over, I suspect NZ GDP to start freefalling soon. NZ is in trouble and house prices are over a million? It does not compute…. the crash is coming, hold on tight.
Yes, let’s live out the rest of our lives in fear over something that has a survival rate of over 99%…you may want that, that’s your choice, but it isnt mine.
Its not what I think is important, its what sort of angelic look Jacinda wants to keep portraying is important. She cannot afford to open up the borders if it causes a single death, which would be inevitable. Jacinda would be blamed and she cannot afford that sort of media attention. Jacinda has trapped NZ in a corner and it is paralysed. This is big news and is the biggest threat to the economy, however the MSM are not picking up on it.
Friends flew in from Wellington at theweekend a half hour flight . They were of course expected to wear masks but we’re given snacks and a wine to consume. Am I the only one who finds this weird especially as there are 79 untraced travellers from Melbourne on the loose,
“Keep up the good work – washing hands, use masks on public transport and contact tracing” Amen to that! Please people start & keep scanning – complacency is just laziness.
‘A shot in the arm for our economy’
????!!!!
I thought this was supposed to be about protecting people.
Probably not. It’s far more likely to be about keeping the NZ ‘livestock’ alive so they can keep slaving away for the sociopaths that run the system.
Anyway, as you have pointed out many times yourself, Bryan, the economy is the problem, not the answer.
The good news on that matter is that the government has shot itself (and the economy) in the foot so many times it’s no longer funny.
The minor devastation currently being experienced in Canterbury is a mere taste of what is to come, pretty much everywhere, as the Earth grossly overheats as a consequence of ‘the economy’.
You won’t hear that narrative from the corporate media or the phony LINO government, though.
What you’ll hear from the LINO mob and the corporate media is yet more bollocks about the ‘need for growth of the economy’, i.e. faster Planetary Meltdown, and in the future many, many more of the events of the kind currently underway in Canterbury.
Pity the children, who are lied to every day.