Perhaps if you live far away north from Dunedin you think everyone who lives there is hiding. He was a fool for breaking his own rule but no-one was directly harmed, except in the future when someone copies him. I’ve had minimal contact with him by mail, no response to concerns I raised, yet 2 separate letters came from 2 different people from his office, thanking me for raising issues – not addressing them. Got the impression no-one was on top of things.

The Associate Minister of Health is Jenny Salesa, an able politician who has a background of working in the health sector including a job in the Ministry of Health as a project manager. Obviously familiar with health officials. She seems to be the sort of person who could step up and do a good job as Minister of Health.

Just a small point: David Clark is not hiding in Dunedin. You got on here so I have to presume you’ve heard about modern communications. Heard about, you seem to not know about how they work and the possibilities in their use.

Even Jacinda is starting to talk to businesses on how to prepare to come out of lockdown.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/jacinda-ardern-encourages-businesses-prepare-new-normal-outside-level-4

If the trajectory of the epidemic continues as well as it is currently we could be in Level 2 or even 1 at the end of the lockdown and we need a broad discussion on how to get back to work safely.

Bridges is in an essential occupation. It’s just spite because Clark has gutshot himself.

Our tragedy is that some of these rapscallions are too damn dumb to realise that we know they don’t hesitate to use anything that comes their way for whatever purpose that happens to suit them. This may just be the way that they’ve been programmed by their succession of sociopathic school boy leaders, but isn’t good enough in a national emergency like the one which we’re currently experiencing.

Their tragedy is that whereas PM Ardern is recognised as rising to the occasion in times of crisis, not one of the Nats has that same ability: a God-sent opportunity for someone with good leadership qualities to emerge and shine – and there’s no-one home.

C’mon – impressed by Simon using big serious words like ‘constitutional’ ? Spare me.

These people are a menace.

There’s a top article in the Guardian on this, on the real and potentially deadly threats posed by various manoeuvres of the ‘Right’ in response to the pandemic: How the Right is Responding to the Coronavirus Denial Realism or Dangerous Contrarianism

Good reminders about the true motivation of Nats and business. They can file their “agile” buzzword along with “going forward” and all the rest. Agile has been overused for several years, often by IT people.

Saw a Black Power guy comment today on FB, on a stuff article urging people not to travel to their Bach during Easter. He said succinctly-“Stay the Fuck Home!”-and that is what it is all about, thousands of small pro lockdown actions, repeated by the maximum number.