HUG SIR ELTON, HUG A CHINESE BUT NOT YOUR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOUR

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“The Son of man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed!" (Mt 26:24).

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano has applied this awful warning to the Pope, whose latest surprise - presumably inspired by his personal 'God of surprises' - is that he's no longer the Vicar of Christ.

It's scary, all right - especially as Bergoglio (as he prefers to be known), followed by complaisant bishops throughout the world (but not everywhere), has banned the public celebration of Easter, for the first time since Jesus rose from the dead 2000+ years ago.

So we should not be surprised that, following Bergoglio's suit, the whole world has gone mad. Even the lefties at the World Health Organisation (WHO) admit that coronavirus can't be "contained", but all over the world economies are being destroyed in the attempt.

In New Zealand, one old lady has died. Now that's sad, and we pray for her soul and for her grieving family. But to prevent other old ladies dying of (or much more likely, just coincidentally, with coronavirus, our Prime Minister places the entire nation under virtual house arrest; thousands are already out of work, we're told to snitch on our neighbours and surfies are being arrested for surfing! 

Jacinda's Fan Club interminably invokes the cantation of "self-isolation". What a joke. I've even heard reporters underline the canard with "people being told to self-isolate". People are not isolating themselves, the Government has isolated us, in 'bubbles' (a pre-school concept surely inspired by little Neve) and placed a large number of Kiwis, mostly elderly and vulnerable, in solitary confinement.

But pity poor President Trump too. He's caved in to coronaphobia and Fake News CNN's predictions that "millions could die". Gosh, that's even worse than Aunty Ardern's "tens of thousands". America has CNN but New Zealand has TvOne News, the literally breathless, alarmist Jacinda Fan Club. 

New Zealand actually goes one better than the States: NZ has vigilante groups, up there in Northland, Maori refusing entry to public roads - to anyone who can't prove one-sixteenth of Maori blood, we suppose, or not of the proper iwi. And the police are acting shtum. 

But: in the US you'll find churches open this Easter, in states where they're deemed an essential business, feeding people's souls just like supermarkets there - and here, of course - are feeding people's faces.

For instance, on March 13 Monsignor Walter Rossi stated that the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC would remain open.

"It's important,"said Mons Rossi, to “balance our responsibility to care for the faithful with the need to provide a place of prayer and pilgrimage for those who seek it. 

"We have seen increased attendance at daily Masses,  many seeking the solace only found in the Holy Mass. We will take prudent  steps to protect ourselves and our visitors, seeking God’s guidance and protection through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary.” Mons Rossi can do this because his basilica is not a diocesan church, it's not beholden to a bishop. 

That's not to say, however, that diocesan priests, as Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Kazakhstan has said, are obliged to obey bishops who order their churches be closed. Morally, they are not obliged to do any such thing. 

So how are NZ Bishops getting on with formulating an open-and-shut case (it's not that hard!) for the Government to reopen churches "with prudent steps to protect" priests and people -  by Easter? 

Jacinda was all smiles tonight on the telly, about the letter she had from a child asking if the Easter Bunny would be delivering eggs next weekend. How about a letter from our bishops asking if priests will be delivering Christ?

The 'modelling' on which Grim Reaperish predictions of deaths in the US are made is as ridiculous as Ardern's. Governmental gullibility is revealed in the US in hanging on the lips of the likes of Drs Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci, (both popping out of Hillary Clinton's pocket), and Neil Ferguson. 

Ferguson's the chap who distinguished himself by recommending the slaughter of vast numbers of uninfected cattle beasts in the UK for fear they'd get foot and mouth disease. For no reason. And later on for predicting that "up to 150,000 people could die" from mad cow disease. It never happened. Why would anyone listen to him again? Because, dear reader, Ferguson's an 'expert'.

And now he's saying 2.2 million might die in America from Covid-19. Clintonites "Tony and Deborah" reckon the US death rate will be five times greater than the entire world's. And Americans sit up and pay these guys attention. They have to be scared witless.

New Zealanders are no better. Here we are, smiling zombies as we truly seem to be, going amiably along with Jacinda probably because she hugged people in a hajib after the mosque attack in Christchurch, and got herself on the cover of Time magazine and all over the side of a 'uge building in Melbourne.

Pity poor Simon Bridges, leader of the Opposition, confined to barracks like the rest of us zombies and pleading for a little sanity from his sitting room sofa. And if he gets off the couch and flies to Welly for a meeting on legit essential business, he gets told off to a standstill, in an incredible lecture this evening on TvOne's so-called 'News' by Jacinda's cheerleader, so-called 'reporter' Jessica Mutch McKay.

While in the meantime Jacinda gets the podium, the press, the mikes and the madness, uninterrupted and adored - coasting in, on a tide of social engineering quite unprecedented in the nation's history, to re-election on September 19. 

Because if New Zealand's death rate from Covid-19 turns out to be one little old lady in Greymouth (and have the media told us yet whether she died of Covid-19, or merely with it?) that same neo-Marxist media will tell us that the victory is all down to the PM and the police state. Wait for it: they'll have saved tens of thousands of lives.

If on the other hand "tens of thousands" die, why then, Aunty Ardern will be proved right, and it will be all your fault, you horrid, uncaring people who went out - some of you in disguise, cloak and dagger-style, to visit the Blessed Sacrament - instead of staying home like you'd been told to.

Here's a pic to give you pause:

Birds of a feather flock together. That's Dr "Tony" Fauci, whose bedside manner inspired poor old Trump to desert his commonsense, on the left, Nancy 'Dem-Baby-killer-in-chief' Pelosi on the right - and who's that they're cuddling up to? Why, none other than poor old Elton, who'd apparently rather die than miss a round of applause. 

In January Kiwis fell over themselves to oblige, exhibiting poor taste and worse judgment thereby. And faithful Catholics have obliged Sir Elton too, by contributing 1 million euros to the making of his bio-pic, Rocketman. 

"What?" You say. "How?" you ask. Through the Good Friday Peter's Pence, a Vatican fund used “for the many different needs of the Universal Church and for the relief of those most in need”, that's how. We've been diddled, people!

And we're being diddled again now, by Aunty Ardern busily stirring the pot of discontent and misery as left-wing governments are bound to do in their pursuit of revolution or anarchy, doesn't matter much which as long as they and their bureaucracy are in control. Covid-19 is their god-send. They're steering us straight towards a One World Government and we Kiwis, famous for common sense and " DIY - it's in our DNA" are being manoeuvred like schoolboys in khaki on the schoolground playing fields of the '50s. 

The day after the death in Greymouth, there was a death here in Central Hawke's Bay. No, not from Covid-19, but suicide. A farmer. The reason? "Drought."

This laconic answer was queried by another, very stressed, farmer who then offered the opinion that Covid-19 panic would have been a contributing factor. We won't probe any further, but leave the tragically deceased, and his family, if he had one, in the hands of Almighty God.

Except we all know now surely, what with All Blacks blubbing on the footy field and barely a session of TvOne's Sports News without some iron man, weight lifter or jockey getting "emotional" and "sharing", that we are here to bear one another's' burdens (Gal 6:2); and for people in dire distress a Skype session or phone call or email just doesn't cut it. Thousands are sacked; businessmen and shopkeepers are facing failure; old people are ill and/or dying in rest homes with no children or grandchildren at the bedside, not even Father with the Last Rites and the Blessed Sacrament.

My Melbourne son said yesterday, of his walk on Saturday with his closest Melbourne friends and their two little boys, husband and wife both now out of a job, he with his dad dead and buried in the UK last week, that thank God, he could listen but"social distancing" was hard, and even harder was not to hug.




Hugs bring us to Italy and reckless political correctness. In January after Covid-19 broke out in Wuhan, flights from China were stopped by Italy and by President Trump. A prominent Italian virologist blames political correctness in the Mayor of Florence's knee-jerk "hug a Chinese Day" response to "racism and xenophobia" for the ensuing mass infection and death toll in Northern Italy. 

Lots of high-end fashion handbags 'Made in Italy' are made in Italy by the 100,000 Chinese, many from Wuhan (get it now?) who now live and work in Northern Italy. So there's lots of to-ing and fro-ing on direct flights, specially last January to celebrate Chinese New Year (Jan 25 - Feb 8). On their return the migrants weren't tested and when PM Conte suggested it he was denounced as 'fascist' by the Left. And so the virus travelled - in or on Gucci handbags? -  from Wuhan, where it started and the genome sequencing was hidden by the Chinese government for 14 days. 

That's not what you'd think from the WHO's applause for the Chinese response - but then, when Communist China clicks its fingers, the WHO comes to heel. The WHO even obliged by renaming Wuhan Pneumonia "Covid-19".It's not nice, is it, to give a nasty disease a Chinese name? 

As in the US the baby-killer in-chief Nancy Pelosi is using the Wuhan virus to bring Trump and his pro-life policies down, so in New Zealand we have the architect of the new baby-slaughter law, Jacinda Ardern, doing the exact same thing to stop Simon Bridges' moderates getting back into the top floor of the Beehive, exploiting what Christopher Ferrara at Remnant calls "viral fundamentalism" to do it. 

“https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/fetzen-fliegen/item/4835-weaponizing-panic-will-covid19-be-trump-s-waterloo

"O Lord, repay us not according to the sins we have committed, nor according to our iniquities, O Lord, let Thy mercies speedily prevent us: for we are become exceeding poor. Help us, O God our Saviour: and for the glory of Thy name, O Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for Thy name's sake."                                            -Tract, Monday in Holy Week      

Has it occurred to anyone else that the coronavirus bears a certain resemblance to the Crown of Thorns?