If you are feeling frightened, anxious or depressed about the pandemic,
relax.
Those are perfectly natural & normal feelings because this is a frightening, anxious & depressing time!
The Government must put together an urgent blue sky task force of our best economists and economic thinkers to generate ideas, and they must do it now.
Level 3 needs to be adopted today so that Level 4 will be acceptable before Friday so we avoid ‘Level 5’.
When share markets crash, it becomes clear that shares are only ever a potential claim on resources. They have to be converted into money before they can command the basics of survival. When the music stops, few want to buy any more. Today’s share market crash reflects not just the bursting of a speculative bubble but also a loss of faith in the viability of the underlying businesses associated with tourism and travel.
The NZ Right are despicable in their attacks on Jacinda during this pandemic. Their collective hatred for her burns so incandescently bright that it eclipses any genuine criticism they might actually hold.
As we stare down the barrel of an enormous shockwave to our economy, culture and public health, what did the NZ Intelligence agencies know and when did they know?
In an attempt to calm the Nation, Jacinda has announced a new virus alert system so that everyone knows what is happening.
You can either read it here first on TDB or wait until woke Twitter and the journalists it enthrals thinks the opinion is popular.
In the frightening weeks and months to come, when Government has to make very hard calls, I am deeply grateful that she is the one sitting at the top of the table making the final call.
Māori are prone to respiratory disease at far higher levels than Pākehā, this pandemic will hit them hardest as it also targets people with chronic illness, which Māori again are over-represented in.