Strange.. I’d think the fact that I can type a usually coherent sentence or few would be evidence that I’m quite capable of using a keyboard or related input device.

Your comment doesn’t really make a lot of sense. Care to try again? I’m happy to believe you got comments crossed, pasted/typed text intended for one window into another and so on.

Of course its linked to the initial traveller yet you believe YOU can use a keyboard.

Oh look another disciple of the professional blow hards across the country who every day in their own moronic micron minds, lacking any expertise or repercussion, endlessly speculate how they would do things differently.

Names not a good look here either…..B-r-u-c-e

Interesting that you class someone giving the actual numbers (at the time) as being a “science denier”, and yourself appear to follow the now debunked model of “90,000 dead NZers” (or 80,000 depending on which you follow). The same models that didn’t take into account any mitigation measures, natural immunity, or the actual numbers from real-world experience over seas.

The worst-case models spouted by the media had little real scientific support, and the real-world numbers are showing them for what they are.

When it comes to ‘science” I always like to take real-world numbers over media-promoted opinion pieces any day.

Oh, and the “links to travel” are commonly understood to be a direct link to a person who has travelled. Jim catches the virus in Spain, returns home, passes it to Alice. Unaware, Alice goes shopping and passes it to Paul. Paul goes shopping elsewhere and passes to someone who isn’t located. That someone passes it to Richard…. Richard doesn’t have a link to travel so cannot be classed as having a link to travel or someone with a close tie to a person who has travelled. How is it you can use a keyboard and yet haven’t grasped this?

Granny Herald’s in a death spiral, mate, so we shouldn’t have long to wait. I’m hoping they put the entire paper behind a massive, ludicrously expensive paywall so only Bob Jones and members of the New Zealand Initiative can afford to read it. Meanwhile, we can all sit about feeling bad because The Listener’s going down the crapper. It’s okay when factory workers lose their jobs, but when it’s snotty middle-class journos, it’s all a ghastly nightmare, darling.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158402236915159&id=542255158

Quoting your words:

“I find John Campbell a pompous prick with poor acting of fake sympathy nauseating”

Input identical to yours is occasionally regurgitated on blogs and always from the same group. It warrants closer examination for authenticity and merit.

You can describe him as a poor actor as that’s just your take. Who knows, he may be a poor actor. He may also be pompous. I don’t find him so but my take has no more weight than yours. If you believe what you post then it’s understandable you find it nauseating.

The part you spout that I take issue with is your statement that it’s “FAKE SYMPATHY”. I believe your take on this aspect is 100% related to your own ignorance and bias. Appallingly, many National Party cheerleaders have zero understanding of what sympathy and empathy are about. Their leaders certainly don’t role model these attributes to them. There is a very real possibility that they genuinely just don’t understand sympathy and empathy.

I and most Kiwi’s find Campbell a deeply caring empathetic person. I would wager my feet and hands he is authentic.

Most of us witnessed NZ change under the previous National Government. It wasn’t just the demographic that changed forever, it was the enormous increase in the level of selfishness on display from the people doing well under National and their complete indifference toward those who were struggling. The ones doing it hard were the enemy and best treated with the contempt they deserved. I’d never witnessed this type of New Zealander on mass over my previous 50 odd year life journey. It spurred me to take more interest in the political scene as the New Zealand that National was creating was not the NZ I wanted to leave behind for my children and grandchildren etc. The most disconcerting aspect of it all was the way our media was treating this monumental change. They turned a blind eye to it and gifted National a free pass virtually every step of the way. How ironic that they wake from their slumber just in time to crucify Ardern every step of the way when she became PM. They also actively participated in the farcical case against Ardern that she knowingly covered up alleged sexual abuse. That is despite there not being a single shred of evidence that she did so and massive question marks over the farcical evidence of the alleged victim. My contempt for our media grew as did my distrust. I sincerely believe that in general terms, our media contain a disproportionate number of vile individuals with an agenda to misrepresent, ridicule and undermine Ardern. There is a long list known to most of us who fall into the above category.

Back to John Campbell. While most of the media turned a blind eye to the great divide opening up in NZ, Campbell used his show on TV3 “Campbell live” to highlight what was happening and was relentless at working with people offering school lunches to kids and footwear etc for students who’s family were in poverty. He was a breath of fresh air and showed people that the caring NZ we grew up in was still here. Anyone who thinks Campbell’s sympathy was “fake” is displaying a bewildering level of ignorance from an alternate universe. Most people knew there was contempt for Campbell from the usual suspects. His line was not cooperating with the alleged ROCK STAR ECONOMY bullshit narrative that National was trying to sell as real, day in day out. Nek minute, the most popular show of it’s type in NZ with an enormous following, was shut down. The voice in the wilderness was silenced….what a relief to those who just want to keep spouting, ROCK STAR ECONOMY.

Who did they replace John Campbell with?

Heather Du Plessis Alann and Duncan Garner. Coincidence? I think not.

HDPA is the wife of Barry Soper. A very keen National Party supporter who has utter contempt for Ardern and all she stands for. He finds it extremely difficult to mask his contempt. Soper was at the head of the line waving his pitchfork around with the sexual abuse cover up witch hunt. HDPA works as his tag team partner in the anti Ardern crusade. They are not far removed from the revolting narcissist, Mike Hosking and his repulsive vomit inducing tag team partner / wife.

Duncan Garner….less said about this bloated ball bag the better

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/politics/new-info-contradicts-brownlee-over-airport-security-breach/

Thanks though for recognizing Jacinda is amazing and she”ll be amazing in her next term.
What will Bridges groupies do then?

Martyn bags Jacinda fairly regularly, mate. He’s prone to hyperbole occasionally, but he’s not shy about putting the boot into the Red Team when he feels it’s warranted. You obviously haven’t been paying attention.