New Zealander’s feel frightened by this Covid virus.
Māori, Pacifica, beneficiaries and the essential staff working classes are all feeling the bite of inequality that they have always lived with.
The middle classes who feel vulnerable for the first time in their lives see their sacrifice during lockdown as the greatest act of courage since Kiwis stormed the beaches of Gallipoli, so our fuse for incompetence is short and our solidarity that Jacinda has empowered can become a toxic backlash that vents fears as angry bigotry and spite.
It shouldn’t be this way, we should in fact feel huge pride and satisfaction in the border process and the track trace programs.
The science math tells us that for every 1000 infected people who arrive at the border, one will be released from quarantine while still infectious – that we’ve had one leak from 40 000 over the border should be celebrated not lead to a Witch hunt led by Judith Collins!
A gap between criticism and reality
From the tone and tenor of criticism in New Zealand, an otherwise uninformed observer would think our leadership has performed as badly as that of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, writes Jack Vowles
Despite the hysterical fear mongering being generated by the ZB Troll Farm and propagated by National Party conspiracy theories, the rest of NZ see through the noise and falsehoods
Which is what the latest Horizon Poll is telling us…
New Zealanders overwhelmingly back the Government as the more competent economic and health managers for the post-Covid-19 world, but small business owners’ once-high confidence in the Government has fallen dramatically, new polling shows.
A Horizon Research Poll obtained by Stuff shows that New Zealanders are not buying the National Party’s claim of being superior economic managers, with 54 per cent of those surveyed saying Jacinda Ardern was the best leader to manage the economic recovery from Covid-19, compared with only 26 per cent for Judith Collins.
…New Zealander’s understand the difference between the Government and the State, they don’t see the MoH screw ups as the Governments fault, they see it as the State’s fault.
We know the neoliberal State has been purposely underfunded into the weak joke it is now, we all remember the MoH screwing up the Measles epidemic last year, we know the neoliberal State has been complicit by refusing any actual capacity and mutating into a toothless free market referee.
We don’t blame Labour or Jacinda for those structural failure because they are the legacy of National’s 9 years in power.
We can all see that Jacinda is doing the best anyone could do and that Judith is by comparison an outright joke.
We can see with our own eyes what real failure looks like overseas and we count our blessings.
The majority of NZers are going to reward Jacinda with a second term.
For the first time in our entire existence as a country, I think we truly understand that we don’t know how lucky we are.
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Indeed we are a lucky country, – however our main failure was that we let 36 years of neo liberalism spread like a pustular rash and develop, – along with their less than surreptitious agenda and embed itself throughout all strata’s of society.
Get rid of that? – then we WELL AND TRULY wont know just how lucky we all are,…Frederick!
Of course we aren’t that stupid I have absolute faith in NZers. We only have to look at our Aussie mates they are in the shit and that is putting it mildly. We want them to come right so we can help one another. Many of us have whanau and friends living in Aus so it in our best interests for them and us to beat this Covid.
Nah, Australian leadership can not be relied upon. Someone left a used blow up dole on the beach and a good Karen thought to call the cops for breaking lockdown, but the cops actually showed up to arrest the blow-up doll, so much finesse, so nimble. We don’t know how lucky we are.
Yes we need to look at the rest of the world to see how we have dodged the bullet so far, and now that Government is testing the sewers in Auckland to find traces of the virus they are on the right track so far to find the residual remains of this insidious virus that appears to like to hide for a while and return when we let our guard down so National wanting to open us up to the world again they are sending a dangerous message not to vote for them as they are totally reckless at best and toxic at their worse.
I’ve never been impressed with the mainstream media but their constant attempts to portray the governments performance in a bad light while we’re one of the best places to be in the world is absurd. I don’t know what is driving them but it’s pretty clear that ensuring the public can get an accurate picture of the world we live in is pretty low on the their prioritylist at the moment.
It’s rightwing media driven. Just today the Herald has a headline. Mike Hosking: Tune in for the ‘Truth’ at 1pm.
Luckily its premium blocked but the first sentence reads… Can I suggest that the Prime Minister spent less time on Facebook and more time asking questions over whether things she expected to happen we’re actually happening then we wouldn’t have been in the situation…
I just wonder whether the “Truth” he wishes to tell was the same type of truth he told that landed him and his radio station a defamation case from John Tamahere?
If you spread enough malicious propaganda around, their are enough coneheads out there that will believe it!
And those that aren’t happy, there are still flights leaving NZ.
Clarke and Dawe on The Changing Face of News
That’s the logic of our shit media today.100% -thanks kheala.
So glad to hear this. I hope it holds (or gets even better) all the way to the election. The National controlled media clowns are going all out to hurt Labour. I want to see so many of them, like Hosking, Tova, Garner etc and of course, Collins herself, bleed on election night. It would make me so very happy. Kia Kaha – 7 weeks to go.
we should in fact feel huge pride and satisfaction in the border process and the track trace programs.
One weakness in the present system is that Pacifica ‘overstayers’ are reluctant to be tested, for fear of the Immigration Dept doing their stuff.
The obvious answer is for the govt to immediately grant all Pacifica overstayers a six month minimum amnesty, consequent to their being tested. As they arrive for Covid testing, they are simultaneously given a card showing that they now have a clear six month amnesty.
You are using different metrics in your statement below. You quote 1 in 1000 INFECTED people will be released from quarantine then use a different metric of 40,000 people having been through the border. A correct comparison is if 1 in 1000 infected cases was an accepted number then so far we have not achieved that. The total infected cases through the border is probably less than 200. Yes, I am making the assumption that the latest outbreak is from the border. This may proof to be incorrect. 40,000 people have been through the border but 99.5% have been Covid free. Your statement is factually correct but your attack on Ms Collins is mis-leading at best. Hopefully this was not done intentionally as I generally find you accurate and very entertaining.
Your statement below.
The science math tells us that for every 1000 infected people who arrive at the border, one will be released from quarantine while still infectious – that we’ve had one leak from 40 000 over the border should be celebrated not lead to a Witch hunt led by Judith Collins!