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"Things go from bad to worse in New Zealand," says Mark Dolan from GB News UK.
"The saintly Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, reminded people not to talk to their neighbours.
"There is even talk about splitting New Zealand in two to fight the Indian-Delta outbreak as it records another wait for it, 21 cases.
"With no prospect of getting back to normal for months if not years to come, Australia and New Zealand are a salutary lesson of what happens if you try to stop a virus like COVID, especially the Delta variant.
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| Mark Dolan: 'The Australian authorities have said that protesting is not acceptable...I didn’t realise Australia isn't a democracy anymore, or a free society. I didn’t get the memo.' |
"Living with this virus is going to be the only show in town.
Yes. Just when did New Zealand give up on its common sense?
Zero COVID leads to zero economies, zero society, zero freedom and zero democracy."
We hate to say we told you so.
The UK Telegraph’s Louis Ashworth also took aim at Ardern, saying the current COVID-19 approach is like "taking a step into the past" and questioned whether New Zealand could continue its elimination strategy into the future.
"Toilet paper shortages. Compulsory masks. A nation enthralled by the movements of a single COVID-19 spreader. Watching New Zealand's current news cycle is like taking a step into the past," he writes. "The so-called 'Auckland cluster' threatens to end a period of almost unbelievable control of the virus in the world's southernmost country.
The country is now the last real holdout of the 'zero COVID' strategy shared with its near neighbour Australia, which has seen its own efforts fall apart amid similarly low vaccination rates."
And similarly totalitarian tactics.
The Telegraph also took exception to New Zealand's slow vaccination rollout and explaining the shortfalls of our "wait and see" stance.
"Low rates of inoculation show the shortfalls of the 'wait and see' stance that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's Government took last year. As international peers more blighted by the coronavirus scrambled to secure doses last autumn, Wellington was more ponderous, awaiting trial information and calling for worst-affected nations to be prioritised."
Any rates of inoculation against Covid are more than New Zealand needs.
Another writer from the Telegraph wrote a brutal opinion piece on Ardern's decision to move New Zealand to a level 4 lockdown. Matthew Lesh called the decision "poetic justice" and New Zealand's approach has "frightening consequences".
"We now have a vaccine," Lesh writes. "The ingenious jabs substantially reduce the risk of hospitalisation and death from the virus.
Has Lesh heard about Israel?
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| Half Israel's seriously ill patients currently hospitalized were fully vaccinated at least five months ago |
They do not mean zero risks or, for that matter, zero cases.
"But they change the calculation: elimination becomes a costly strategy with very limited benefit. What's the point of lockdowns and maintaining closed borders for a virus that, with vaccines in the mix, no longer causes much harm to individual people?
It never did cause much harm to individual people.
"New Zealand has not come to this realisation. It has fetishised 'zero risks' for the past 17 months and shows little interest in updating its strategy.
"New Zealand's zero COVID strategy has had frightening consequences.
"A once-welcoming nation is turning into an isolated dystopia, where liberties are taken away in a heartbeat and outsiders are shunned. Living under the constant threat of disruptive and psychologically crushing lockdowns.
"Being closed off to the world, with citizens' ability to travel curtailed and foreigners largely prevented from entering. So much for the open, welcoming liberal nation projected by Ardern."
Do we detect a hint of glee in a Newshub journo who's sick and tired of being a propagandist for Ardern&Little, Death Dealers to the Nation, and who's revelling in reporting real journos' comments from overseas, where they're not bribed, or at least not by our government?
The world might be criticising New Zealand, but Kiwis haven't lost their sense of humour. The hashtag "#NZHellhole", initially a response to former US President Donald Trump’s attempts to call New Zealand out on its COVID-19 response, has again been trending since New Zealand went into lockdown last Tuesday.
One Twitter user said: "Moved here four months ago from Australia. It's terrible, stay away from this #NZHellhole you'll hate it!" https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/08/coronavirus-world-reacts-to-new-zealand-s-lockdown-move-nearly-one-week-on.html
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| St Rose of Lima, August 23 |
"The gifts of grace increase as the sorrows increase"
St Rose of Lima, pray for us
The approach is correct until we get 80 per cent of the population immunised.
ReplyDeleteOne begins to understand why you seek to be anonymous, Anonymous.
DeleteWhat if over 20% of the population uses their own brains and does the research? Are we to be rounded up and 'quarantined' indefinitely while the 'sensible' percentage pretends everything is fine, just and necessary?
ReplyDeleteHitlers holocaust did not start w experimenting on and gassing people. It started with an enticing political rhetoric blaming the Jews for Germany's woes.
Media. Propaganda. Censorship. Lies. Agenda!!
THINK HARD about which side of history you want to be on at this crucial, crucial time!!!
An Obituary printed in the London Times a few years back.
ReplyDeletePosted by Ian Armstrong
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
Why the early bird gets the worm;
Life isn't always fair; and
Maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place.
Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.
It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realise that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust, by his wife, Discretion, by his daughter, Responsibility, and by his son, Reason.
He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers;
I Know My Rights
I Want It Now
Someone Else Is To Blame
I'm A Victim
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.
Looks like Leo has run out of roar. ��
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