The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday – 2nd September 2021
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Moderation rules are more lenient for this section, but try and play nicely.
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six foot four of empty shell – fill in, pour your knee-jerk anti-Labour opinions through slot at top!
Now something else to consider.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/country/450620/five-more-overseas-companies-approved-to-buy-forestry-or-farm-land
Is NZ a tasty dish for overseas investors? For sale, parts of small country, looks green, with sparkling waters, people bemused, slightly literate, add to your portfolio of interests and bolt-holes around the world.
Small question re –
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/450638/community-braces-for-bad-news-as-church-cluster-grows-to-332-people
Once we entered delta conditions why were gatherings not restricted in numbers? Some consultations with church leaders and entertainers. It was a new difficult ballgame. Or don’t governments have the capacity for sustained practicality and reasonable precautionary measures any more until their hand is forced by events?
A reasonable query I think.
You make a good point 6×4. But all the same Delta changed the pattern, what was sensible. I suppose the scientific watchers who do so well for us would have pointed this out. The gummint could have reacted to that, and taken the churches along with them. We had a precedent before with their big gatherings resulting in a a big lockdown, bad for business and bad for the working people who caused it. Could a, would a is gone now – but thinking people expect gummint to learn and avoid further lockdowns that are driving people stressed by past poor government going back to the 1980s – towards crazy. Can gummint pass the ‘fit for purpose test’?