Right on Sinic, or if the media hadn’t given it oxygen or if the government had simply ignored it.

It was clear to me there was a direct correlation between govt change in strategy when JK spouted off his opinions publicly along with business whinging pressures. It was all on like Donkey Kong from there when elimination was clearly abandoned, right when cases were on a clear trend down. Who knows what we might have achieved had that fucker just shut the fuck up

As a lawyer he should have just stuck to his knitting. It’s a classic case of an expert in his own field, straying into another field and perhaps, expecting the be regarded as an expert there as well.

If you look at the stats, you’ll see that they rose every time the government loosened the rules. Delta got into NZ when the bubble with Australia was opened. It leaked into Waikato when Auckland was dropped to level 3.

This is about government signalling as Dr. Power has alluded to.

As for the notion that when people see others flaunting the rules or getting off lightly being a reason to do it themselves; this is pretty childish really isn’t it? Do people not have the maturity or the moral integrity to do the right thing even if they see a few others not doing the right thing? I suppose it’s an indictment of our society. Very dysfunctional.

I am an Aucklander, a Westie to be more accurate.
I have worn Swanndris – bushshirts, pea jackets and bomber jackets – since they 1970s.
Ferals are those who think only of themselves and to hell with anyone else’s rights.
Of course they puff themselves up they are fighting for ‘freedom’.
But they don’t compare with the left political protests of recent years, especially the antiwar anti TPPA.
A young person wearing a puffer jackets is an outrage but nothing compared with the battles they will fight to save the human race.
And they don’t apologise for being ‘white’ only for the racist record of the white colonisers.

Yep, calling us Aucklanders “feral’ just about does it. Why the heck should anyone take notice of you when Aucklanders get called “feral”, “Jafa’s” and the like. The small “feral” minority is actually much larger than you think. But denigration will surely see them side with the you and the XR youth.

As for a vanguard of youth? Ha, not likely. So woke they apologise for being a member of the race being sent to Coventry.

Was accosted by one XS member wearing a nice nylon puffer jacket. She had no clue that the nylon jacket she was wearing was manufactured from fossil fuels. Chided her for not wearing a Swandri.

Went totally over her head. No idea, no preconception, no common sense.

XR and reality are two contradictory terms.

But if the marxist in you sees XR as the way forward; go for it. Just don’t let them wear puffer jackets. Swandri’s all the way. I guess the red and black ones are most fetching for marxist XR members.