the phantom menace
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You still whinging about those vaccines and stay at home rules...?
It's OK, Gladys and her party got the boot for it here in NSW
It's OK, Gladys and her party got the boot for it here in NSW
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Imagine how much more they would have if they didnt waste it on building those Covid Quarantine hubs up there in Toowoomba that barely got used after it all got built at the end of covid.
What is this tyrant stuff ? I know that there are political sides n all but tryant ? These dudes are tyrants. What did she do ?
This forum would be nothing without hyperbole.
But I ain't spending any time on it because in the meantime, every three months, a person is torn to pieces by a crocodile in North Queensland!
But I ain't spending any time on it because in the meantime, every three months, a person is torn to pieces by a crocodile in North Queensland!
Sorry, who is a nut job ?Ok simp more for Your "Labour" mates
Why does every labour loving nut job focus on everyone else and not the issue?
Everything has degrees .... dont have to be putting bullets in the back of peoples heads to still be on a tyranical power trip .... what these merkins did was cruel to f**kloads of people .... though i realise merkins want to just forget the shit ever happened
You still whinging about those vaccines and stay at home rules...?
It's OK, Gladys and her party got the boot for it here in NSW
I read an enlightening opinion piece by a NZ'er in the lead up to the recent Kiwi national election when that utter failure who took over from the charlatan that was Ardern was struck down by covid in the lead up to the election... The ironing was delicious as Bart Simpson would say.... I'll see if I can find it and post it.....
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Mate these days every thrust (so usually about three times a session), I yell out “I don’t consent to your sexual exploitation of me”. Get in before they have a chance
I’m not going to go over old ground, but will say that Morrison and the state premiers did what they did with bipartisan agreement.
Well Damian Grant is a card carrying Libertarian. So of course he would be against intervention in a pandemic.Here 'tis...
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OPINION: Can there be a more poetic end to this government than its Prime Minister, confined to his hotel room, the last soldier of a forgotten war stranded on an isolated island while the rest of his people prepare to vote his party back to the Stone Age?
Hipkins was central to many of the worst aspects of the lockdowns, mandates, failed procurement processes and state-overreach of the Covid era. To see him grounded, a prisoner not of Covid but of his own past, while the nation looks forward to whatever regime will assume power next month, is somewhat ironic.
The disaster that has befallen Hipkins isn’t Covid but the misfortune of reminding the nation of that period, and our own complicity in it.
We are not just annoyed at Jacinda Ardern and her ministers; some of us are embarrassed at how we acted, how we were complicit in what went down.
We embraced the home-confinement, locked border and forced vaccinations.
OPINION: Can there be a more poetic end to this government than its Prime Minister, confined to his hotel room, the last soldier of a forgotten war stranded on an isolated island while the rest of his people prepare to vote his party back to the Stone Age?
Hipkins was central to many of the worst aspects of the lockdowns, mandates, failed procurement processes and state-overreach of the Covid era. To see him grounded, a prisoner not of Covid but of his own past, while the nation looks forward to whatever regime will assume power next month, is somewhat ironic.
The disaster that has befallen Hipkins isn’t Covid but the misfortune of reminding the nation of that period, and our own complicity in it.
Our lowest point occurred right at the start. March 2020. The Prime Minister was issuing stay-at-home orders, to remain in our ‘bubbles’ which were enforced enthusiastically by the police and citizen vigilantes, but for nine days the executive had no legal authority to do any such thing.
And no one, other than Mr Andrew Borrowdale, who successfully litigated the issue, noticed. Not the executive. Not the Director General of Health. Not the media. Not the Police.
The willingness with which we fell into compliance was dispiriting; but it was going to get worse. Parliament abrogated its oversight responsibility and voted the executive a blank cheque for $52 billion dollars with the inevitable result. Much was wasted.
We do not want to be reminded. We no longer care. The virus took 14 souls last week. You won’t have noticed. The country has moved on. Only Chris Hipkins, in solitary isolation, remains true to the old ways.
This was the sort of data that would have driven us to cover up, staring in fear across our masks, cowering behind our picket fences and home-deliveries as we kept our children away from their friends.
We descended into a nasty, petty team of five million. Anyone not showing sufficient compliance was an affront to our own sacrifice.
Then came the mandates. Those not willing to follow to be vaccinated were hounded, not just out of cafés, movie cinemas and public transport, but from their careers, their employment, from anywhere where the lives of the unclean could interact with us: the vaccinated, the virtuous, the vigilant.
Looking back, it is difficult to accept how badly we behaved, how we cheered when the state chased rule-breakers for fleeing to Northland or Wanaka, were stopped at checkpoints, were fined, charged, detained.
Covid revealed something ugly about ourselves. About how easily we will comply with the most absurd directions and how few of us are willing to take even the mildest stand for our, or our neighbours’, liberty.
We dressed up this compliance as a necessary commitment to save the vulnerable. But was it, really? Or did we just enjoy, for a moment, being part of a mob.
Once the mandates arrived, we knew that the vaccines didn’t necessarily stop infection, that the mortality rate was far lower than first feared and forcing the unvaccinated out of the classroom served no purpose than as a means of collective punishment for being difficult.
When those pushed to the margins finally revolted, erupting onto the lawns of parliament, our media were not even willing to get close to what, in the public mind, was a leper colony, in every interpretation of that phrase.
Here were those, many already on the margins economically and mentally, driven to a public act of desperation and self-destruction and all we could do was wait until the truncheons were finally deployed to drag them from the parliamentary lawn and our consciousness.
And we have paid a terrible price. Closing schools has coincided with a spike in truancy that has remained stubbornly resistant to resolution.
A generation has been locked out of the property market thanks to the asset-shock caused by quantitative easing. The explosion of government debt that will never be re-paid because neither major party has the stomach to bring the finances back to surplus will blight our sovereign accounts for generations.
And so we come back to Chris Hipkins, languishing in his hotel room, face pressed metaphorically against the glass, as the nation moved on without him and shortly without his party. It is the perfect farewell to his administration, to the Covid-era, and away from any reconciliation for what occurred and our individual part in it.
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Sobering, no??
Is that from his Wide World of Sports days?
Do you always talk like a pretentious wanker in real life too? Or do you just save it for this forum? ..... spicey cough - ffs just say covid you idiot
Well there are probably 100,000 ++ businesses and that survived and kept their staff because of the government measures. So there’s that.
