KevO’Brien’s a rank amateur in the make-believe miracle stakes. Shawn Herles’ revelations about the young girl regrowing a hand after a faith healer’s meeting will never be beaten.

I’ve heard some bullshit artists in my time but that boy took the biscuit.

We’re supposed to trust a scientist who has a catastrophic fuck-up using hair dye?

A woman with long, bright pink hair?

“Aposematic signals are primarily visual, using bright colours… Warning signals are honest indications of noxious prey, because conspicuousness evolves in tandem with noxiousness. Thus, the brighter and more conspicuous the organism, the more toxic it usually is.”

I suspect that the woman’s hair is an aposematic signal.

She was ragging on the Nats the other day for saying take it seriously

Actually she is a world expert on bacteria and Viruses. so don’t scoff.

Skipe it is then.
Plenty of rest and fluids for you.

Good morning P.
Sounds like you’ve caught a virus – maybe Wuhan Flu, maybe something else.
Standard operating procedure applies.
Cancel all meetings for the week, stay home and look after yourself.
Hope you’re feeling better soon.
H.

Ive had it for 2 weeks ever since arriving back from Australia. Its not too bad if you rest a lot. My advice is visit all your enemies and hug them like they’re your best friend..

Thanks for the well wishes, team. Going to take it easy and work remotely and so forth this week. Even if it’s Wuhan Flu, I’m young enough, fit enough and eat well enough that it doesn’t worry me overly much. Those toilet paper stocks in the garage though … that is worryingly low. I may need to buy another 41,332 rolls so I don’t have to delve into my library for kakpapier.

Kea, Oh yeah the left have blamed Trump for the virus,it’s only a matter of time before the moron Bryan Stelter blames Trump for being the “shooter on the grassy knoll “,bet your house on it.

Americans would love that anyway and why shouldn’t whoever develops it immunize their own countries first?

Trump did try to entice a German firm with a promising vaccine to move production to the USA but the German’s have countered the offer to the vaccine makers with a bigger financial offer.

There is that guy (American) who has the virus that has been reported as saying how well it is being treated in New Zealand along with praise for Ardern so much better than in the U.S.A. I notice they didn’t ask him which Democrat he is voting for.

Wintson Churchill was once asked why he took cruises on Italian liners instead of British ones. He apparently replied that when an Italian ship got into a spot of bother there was none of that “women and children first” nonsense.

well, now that you’ve mentioned it…..

I thought you and Nasska might appreciate Prof Raina McIntyre’s comments on social distancing….

“Ms MacIntyre said social distancing was particularly important among young people who “have the most intense transmissions”.

“They may not get the sickest with this virus but they transmit more intensely because they mix more intensely in certain situations.”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-15/coronavirus-update-latest-news-us-travel-ban-extended-trump-test/12057094

This mad woman also said this morning “The whole world is burning” an incredibly irresponsible statement.
She suffers from the worst case of opening her mouth before engaging her brain I’ve ever seen.

In was only a matter of time this pink haired political activist showed her true colors. Its appalling this bitch’s views are being considered.

She is clearly using this to attack conservative politicians.

I bet if Corbyn had gotten in and did the same thing it would be lauded as the best decision ever.

I doubt that. She hasnt shown any leadership at all merely panhandled the responsibility off on yet another working group.

If our coming outbreak is handled well (by all the local DHBs and authorities) then sure she will take the credit, but if folks discover that Granny and Uncle Ned can’t get a hospital bed when they need it…and roaming thugs are breaking into sick people’s houses/businesses and young Jolyne loses her job cleaning at the local motel, and there’s no-one to pack kiwifruit, and dunny paper/peanut butter runs out of shops, then Ardern & co will be gone-burgers.

The bit that worries me – suspension of elections. It is the perfect, logical vehicle for what she wants.

That’s going to hurt. Closing the pub! Oh No!
Might need all them sex toys, after all!

Ireland shuts pubs? We’re DOOMED

A brief article, although written in the end of February , then translated early March, this article shows that the hind sight we have now, is showing its accuracy, as this plays out.
Sort of simple maths, that many of us know, and the ramifications, but also easily explained.

And so it becomes the 4th stage of the governmental plans. 🙁
So we know what to do to avoid our 4th stage. 🙂

Bit stupid really. If people have their activity limited –no large gatherings etc., business people will not travel overseas much if they have to stay at home for two weeks when they get back etc. , businesses overseas are limited in their activity so export markets are contracted —so how is this stimulus meant to to work ?
As a household we will be constraining expenditure not splurging.

It is worth keeping with Croaking Cassandra on this one as well. He’s writing some rather scathing commentary with lots of detail on the Reserve Bank and how the current, woke Governor is screwing things up. A lot of it goes over my head though; I have to sit down and think it through carefully 🙂

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced over the weekend anyone entering New Zealand from 1am on Monday would have to self-isolate for 14 days, in a bid to stop the spread of COVID-19.

If it wasn’t so pathetic, this would be hilarious.

There is no way she can enforce this. As far as is known there is no method in place to track a person’s address when they enter the country, there is no temperature scanning of arriving travellers and furthermore it seems almost impossible to get yourself tested if you think you might be infected.

There cannot possibly be any effective enforcement of this ‘announcement’. Don’t ask the police to be involved: the cops can’t even attend burglaries because they’re too busy checking out dangerous right wing people exercising free speech and hassling motorists while giving their guns to criminals.

Low value back packers should be turned around, if we were serious about protecting ourselves.
Some countries require you to submit the name of the place you will be staying on a Visa.
In that case, weeding out freedom style backpackers would be border control demanding: “Show us your booked accommodation for the next 2 weeks. Oh, you don’t have any booked? Is that a tent?….O.K. Fuck off”.

These low value tourist are the ones too often caught fouling up public spaces with used toilet paper and excrement.
Don’t really need that sort. They are no loss to the economy, unlike the spenders coming from Asia who actually support local businesses.

Ah yes, more European backpackers in bongo vans and old Corolla station wagons to poo on our beaches, roadsides, and parks.
Then to steal from Pak n Save and the Warehouse
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/103489816/backpacking-vineyard-workers-save-money-by-stealing-groceries?rm=m
‘European tourists in Marlborough for harvest have been caught abusing supermarket self-service checkouts.’
‘Three French nationals and a woman from Belgium have appeared in court after repeatedly targeting Pak ‘n Save in Blenheim, a week after three German vineyard workers admitted shoplifting at Pak ‘n Save.
Then security stopped the women at the door. They had identified the women from their previous shopping trips, caught on security camera footage.’

When spoken to by police, the women showed no remorse and seemed to find it funny, the police summary said.

They do SFA good here.
There is a silly theory that when they come here as low spending backpackers they will return 30 years later as well to do adults. That does not happen. By then they go to Spain, Mediterranean Islands, the Caribbean, and Thailand.

We are better off with the scheme of bringing in Pacific islanders for fruit picking.
At least they can earn some money rather than NZ give them money.

What about residents or citizens that say Fuck it, I am carrying as normal? Can’t deport them? And how you going to know, unless they go back to work and the boss dobs them in….

The next 3 weeks is going to be reaallllllllyy interesting.

Beware the Ides of March. (Oh crap! That was yesterday!)

I want to know what happened to all the generators local authorities bought ahead of the Y2K crisis. There have been power outages (albeit isolated events) for various reasons since, but not a single hum from any of them.

NOOOOO NOT THE HECKIN KEAROOOONIES!

Complete and utter tosh. Not one single mention of the real killer of keas, the jews….Ooops, sorry, I mean 1080 poison.

When has she ever done her job and got it right?
By the way, where’s Whinestone?

Yeah, except they still don’t have the power on regularly in South Africa. They’re going to have it rough with large swathes of the population smoking / having existing health conditions and a shitty health system.

Its killed 5393 more people than climate change so far.

An intelligent article with a few home truths about the bug.
https://www.abrechnungen.ch/2020/03/02/covid-19-is-out-of-control/?lang=en
Hat tip Kea.

Sort of simple maths, that many of us know, and the ramifications, but also easily explained.
Our hind sight now seems to prove this article, so still “a long hard row to hoe” into the future.

So the only other factor now is more time, the future, then to an equilibrium, and or until a vaccine comes into play.

There is no way to stop this virus completely, but the challenge is to stop everyone getting sick at the same time and stretching health resources beyond breaking point.
Our health services at all levels have not coped with normal winter flu season demands for years, so having this threat added will cost lives as vulnerable people will be unable to access treatment.
For many Wuhan Flu will only be a glorified cold (Yes, Kea!) but the devil lies in the numbers.
There is a shortage of GPS in the country. Mine frequently has appointments booked up for two weeks in advance. More importantly the same applies my elderly mum’s doctor.
If either of those doctors get sick we’re in the kaka because locums will be like hen’s teeth.
There aren’t enough hospital beds in the country to cope with seasonal flu demands. Every year we have pleas for people not to turn up to A&E, and patients ‘lucky’ enough to get admitted parked in hospital corridors. That won’t be improved as staff can’t be vaccinated for Wuhan Flu, and numbers will be affected at least while they recover from their own illness. If the spike in demand coincides with the trough in staff supply, it isn’t outrageous to deduce service might be compromised – and when health service is compromised people die.
Limiting human contact as much as possible might not save my life (which is probably not in danger) but it could well help save someone else’s.

Still $2.13 a liter for 91 at the local Z.

“I expect that the answer if it’s not [yes] then I will then ask for the power to deport – I don’t think it will come to that.”

I expect that think English speak working words should be sequence of some kind.

Quick, someone give her drug dealer the virus.

I’d be more inclined to cancel my holiday abroad, than to arrive there and spend two weeks of my annual leave hiding out in a motel before I got to see the country.

Ardern.
What a muppet.
As we already know.
After all the noise about Aussie deportations in the last year or more (and Special K going postal about it) she does not even know if she can deport when these circumstances are happening now, and she comes on a live interview.

Looks like she can only handle questions in advance.
This is because Ardern is not very bright and simply rolled in socialist dogma delivered with a bobbing head.
She knows nothing else.
Muppet is a very kind term in the circumstances for someone part time on a salary of $10,000 a week plus super, plus a private jet, plus many other perks.

One would think better tracking of foreign nationals is not such a bad idea after the Tarrant event.

To bring medical supplies says Cindy!

But it can be slowed down to allow our hospital resources to better cope with the serious cases (to a certain extent).

With all due respect Kea, you really do sound like another galah we’ve all met and could do without here.

At this stage I think Ardern is going to use public opinion to set policy. She won’t want to risk her election chances by doing something she thinks the public doesn’t want. I’d bet the Labour spin-doctors are out there constantly gathering the mood and trying to find out what will give her the best look.

Employment consultant on Magic said a lot of his employer clients are quietly asking for advice on how to can they keep their business afloat.

The first thing a business in trouble does is cut costs which may result in shedding staff. There is no extra cash for a pay increase… Employees will be lucky to have a job to go to.

Pass me a sick bucket.

Adulation of sub-mediocrity, mixed with poetic hyperbole.

Better to restrict them from going back

There’s another cruise ship that just told everyone to hop off. That it find your own way home!

“We’re fucked”

Yes in terms of stopping the spread and economic impact.

But most will survive the illness and scrape along.

Well those business’ may as well close as the customers will desert them.

I saw a report that the massive outbreak in Italy was sourced from a Pizza delivery worker.

Judging by recent events, they’ll shoot you.

My tickets to hear James Morrison at the Tauranga Jazz Festival at Easter are looking a bit dubious.
I’ve been looking forward to that for months. 😢

Bwaaaahahaha imbeciles be triggered.

We won’t! 😜

Kea isn’t joking, he actually believes in his intellectual superiority .

Told you the business would have to close. Won’t be the last.

Revealed: Cafe at centre of Wellington coronavirus case speaks out
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/03/revealed-cafe-at-centre-of-wellington-coronavirus-case-speaks-out.html

“But we feel we have a duty of care to our staff and our community and have elected to shut and take extra precautions.

“If you were in the café on Saturday between the hours of 11:00am and 11:30am and believe you may have had close and prolonged contact with the man, we strongly encourage you to phone Healthline.”

The man, in his 60s, became New Zealand’s seventh confirmed case of COVID-19. He requires no further medical treatment and is self-isolating in Wellington.

“Pass a law delaying the election 12 months (needs 75% of Parliament)
Form a Government with all parties willing to serve until 31 March 2021
Form a “COVID Cabinet” that can make decisions on behalf of the normal Cabinet”
– DPF

Instead, how about if the COL are not capable they call an early election. Move aside Cindy and co, let the adults back in to run the country!

Makes me wonder if there have been feelers put out by the Labour Party, that is behind this idea.
Maybe they are pressuring to hold off the election?
Well to save their sorry arse, by going for another roll of the dice,

Is DPF doing a sort of hidden behind the scenes polling?
To get ideas, and counter ideas? to what would it take?
Or how to put this down effectively?

It would explain some of the real bad parts of his concept, as I do not think even DPF would seriously consider.

Winston is sort of out of it, as the trade off bauble is being the foreign minister, and a longer term as a minister on the perks, to some supposedly safe haven.

I’ll say this here, up to anyone else to tell DPF he’s fucking retarded if he thinks this is a good idea.
Even the people he’s mentioned are dire. I thought only women got babby brain, obviously not. What a fucking plonker
FWIW the way Labour, Green and NZF ministers are dropping from exposure to the virus, National will have a majority without an election soon enough

I had to click through to that. I’ve managed to keep myself mostly Kiwiblog free the last year; but that just sounded retarded enough to click through. So, his idea is to hand Jacinda another three years of power and exclude David Seymour?

What kind of idiot would form a government that includes Winston Peters, but excludes David Seymour?

That poor man may as well paint Kiwiblog red and confirm that he’s now in bed with Jacinda. He’s lost as a member of the centre left, centre right and right.

DPF is monitoring his post, and I think for the purpose I mentioned above, and so maybe looking for political direction on this issue.
Could be a devil’s advocate, and to flesh out feelings on this.

@ 2.48 pm.
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2020/03/is_it_time_for_a_government_of_national_unity.html/comment-page-1#comment-2660628

@ 2.50 pm.
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2020/03/is_it_time_for_a_government_of_national_unity.html/comment-page-1#comment-2660631

Fruity Farrar is a politically naive waif.
He was only any good when John Key was his patron.

-In the last 4 years he has been actively anti Trump with severe TDS.
-He was (Is?) against the elected PM of Britain, Boris Johnson.
-He picked Bill Shorten for the win in Oz last year
He is actually a Demoncrat in US politics context, not a Republican
From what comments people made here he is pro-ancient commie, Bernie Sanders

Farrar is a complete political bimbo
Any mojo he had went when Mojo Mathers went.
He is as deaf to realpolitik as Mathers is in real life.

Farrar is a nasty leftie by all counts and that fits with his anti free speech approach.
He would have been pure Norm Kirk Labour if Big Norm was still around.
That is his political territory and where he may be trying to take Notional.

Having Cindy as PM during a crisis makes me miss having John Key even more. The woman simply has no substance, intelligence and that act of gravitas she tries to pull off simply comes across as petulance.

You’re gonna have to be more specific about which retard you’re referring.

I think we have something a little more pressing that Climate Change (TM) to worry about.

Right now, the number of official cases in this country is low, but as all of you familiar with graphs of exponential growth will know, the gradient of the curve can whip upwards at the point of inflection like a striking snake.

Mark my words, economic sentiment can turn on a dime. One moment everything is fine; next moment major NZ companies are talking of laying off 1,000s of staff. Things can turn nasty very, very quickly. This country hasn’t had a real economic shock since 1987. Most people have no idea. This time around, the levels of debt are huge.

Let’s see where this goes…

Went to the warehouse and turned her today!

Further to this I think the Government will call school holidays earlier this month, with make up sessions for children once school is allowed back. It makes sense to do this now as no one is going to be going on holidays this year.
Thats what I would do if in charge. It would also give the government breathing room to initiate plans for more effective distance learning

Still not as crazy as creating a subclass of licensed Black weed dealers in every city, because as Bernie puts it “They’re racially inclined to do that sort of thing”

There’s more than 500 people at Wellington Railway Station for periods of the day
At least the Samoan cleaners will be on overtime

Does that include protests about “far right nazis” and “climate catastrophe” ?

It’s done a great job of keeping the alarmists & their retarded little spokesperson out of the news.

How come this outbreak hasn’t been blamed on the Russians?

I thought they were experts with sending out viral bots.

But it will affect the famous “Old Bill Cochran’s ‘Abysmal failures and medical mishaps symposium’.
I was really looking forward to seeing his swamp kauri hip replacement joint and especially his recital of ‘How to swim naked with confidence’.
‘Confidence’, was a girl he met in his early twenties.
Oh well, there’s always next year.

Funnily enough, this History book which just conveniently dropped through a time wormhole in space from the future into my lap, had this to say:
Yet despite everything they could do, Donald John Trump was unanimously elected for his second term before assuming the title of “Emperor of The Biggliest World” The leftards then wept copious tears and moved to Mexico. Which was a small corrupt country that used to exist where Biggliest Texas now exists.

Come on mate, its in the British Bible
Thou shall not deny me my favorite daily curry upon pain of sharts

No worries mate, I’ve got Wayne Tamihere on the job.
Specialist assignment, long term Labour voter

Yeah bird brain but a Common Cold doesnt require armed guards stationed outside your door. Explain that while I wait. You can’t. Because its a Zombie Pocky Lips, imbecile.

See I’m different and would prefer to see the senior executives on obscene money lose their jobs. Rather than engineers.

Now after Liebour trying to sink the sale or part sale of assets 6 years ago and the Govt kept 51% of AirNZ you have to wonder at meetings in darkened rooms this week (by inept Liebour clowns who could not run a bath) that suggest maybe the govt should have flogged the whole lot.
Be careful what you wish for.

Liebour’s poisoning of the well as they did with asset sales circa 2013 was a dirty trick as was the dumping of a bad deal with Kiwirail buyback.

Your last 12 words were superfluous Maggy.

I sympathize with you Maggy.
I once had a cat with those traits.
Damn near tore my ear off when I wouldn’t let him drive.
Still, his offspring were tame…..ish.
Bloody pedigrees.

Is that cry for help Maggie.

Blink twice if you are under duress !!

It puts the whole UN2030 into perspective when they have been trying to cram people into multi story units.
Esp with the way they are built in NZ..and now Australia.
This has been the aim. Control of movement and association.
How convenient.

Jacinda can relax in the garden, easy as pie.
She just gets the lawnmower out!

Wasn’t the Iranian overstayer going to speak at the Auckland Writers’ Festival? Oh dear, how sad, never mind. //

As well today we heard The National Fieldays at Mystery Creek in June have been postponed.

These are happy times for us introverts who need very little social validation 👍😊

Another reason for living in Auckland. The food! (The high-priced food!)
Still, restaurant patronage could be badly hit by these anti-viral precautions. Makes you realise just what a large proportion of the economy (and jobs) are entertainment/non-essential. Examples include restaurants and bars, nightclubs, tourism ventures, festivals, theaters, gallaries, concerts, etc. Life goes on without them.

Exactly. Nothing there for the average person.

So many lefties have physical abnormalities and poor genetics. Aside from their intellectual and emotional limitations.

I find it hard to believe that a grown man could write such candy floss.

And we have the economic backbone to take a big hit – we can find the billions we need to push out there to keep things moving.

I understand that as you age your brain can turn to jelly… but honestly, why is that happening so quickly to folks younger than me?

A free ticket show here, from one of the greats in form.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1239245572206481412
Not too bad to be incarcerated with that guy 🙂
So long as it is not all night long, then any way, there is no off to work in the morning either.

Some how some No 8 wire improvisations may get us by too.
Sort of a variety night, to ring the changes.