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Filed under Nasska’s Religious Miracles:
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Those who have committed to Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour are covered. “He will give his angels in charge over thee..” Been there: my car was pushed back about 6m and a head on collision avoided. I had no part in it except to be surprised at the time and thankful afterwards. I could feel the deceleration. I have seen other miracles too. A Christian empowered by the Holy Spirit can certainly affect the temporal world around them.
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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.
Lets all hope those often used words by Grant Robertson since his last budget ” we are well placed to absorb any international head winds” weren’t just another big line of bullshit, AKA an ” Ardern “.
Talk about Leftie Panic, I just saw a pink haired scientist of some kind on TV 1. actually state ” the whole world is on fire”, FFS these sort of statements are the last thing NZ needs, this will have our stupid populace rushing out to buy what’s left of our shithouse paper stocks.
This has gone way to far its not a pandemic it’s a PANICDEMIC,FFUUUUUCCKK.
We’re supposed to trust a scientist who has a catastrophic fuck-up using hair dye?
Saggy ,seriously she should be dragged across the coals for coming up with her panic inducing crap ,”the whole world is burning”. how stupid is that statement?
That’s hilarious! The really strange part is she also has a kid, obviously conceived in a dodgy fetish club.
`…..obviously conceived in a dodgy fetish club.’
In the dark by the sounds of it.
Gawd, how fucking awful but then again, probably a great root !~
ABS, a number of people actually saw the shooter and even more saw him sprinting away from the scene,its a real mystery thats for sure.
My conspiracy theory is it was an inside job by the U S security services, I reckon they’d like to do the same thing to Trump, he’s completely upset the order of business.
Stigie,takes a good man to come up with a silver lining even from a horror show like that ,LOL.
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
How can you be taken seriously looking like that?
Actually she is a world expert on bacteria and Viruses. so don’t scoff.
Viking ,seriously if she was a World expert she wouldn’t be In N Z spewing the C O Ls bullshit and making reckless statements on national TV actually scaring the shit out of our gullible stupid populace.. ” The whole world is burning”.
Such a responsible little scientist she is,,,NOT.
I’ve managed to catch something. Body aches, sore throat, runny nose, etc. Took a couple of Panadols and went to bed, still the same this morning. Good thing I usually work from home, but now – do I cancel all customer facing meetings this week and move them to virtual?
On the plus side, I picked up a great little game called Anno 1800 and haven’t been able to put it down this weekend. I’m not very good at it though, I usually end up bankrupt somewhere along the way, but at least you can see where a few hours before you made a mistake that starts impacting on you now. So, start again, do it better. But I find myself captivated by the city and seeing the little people walk around, talk to each-other, etc. You can see them go to the pub, hang up their washing – it’s just so detailed with this whole ecosystem running itself.
Anyway, Monday. Back to work, somebody has to pay the benefits 🙂
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..
I’m not sure Jacinda will answer the door though 🙂
Cindy not mastered the opening of a door with a Yale Lock yet! Probably because it requires a clockwise (Right) turn.
As have I. the worst bit is the ear infection that seems to go with it.
Lose your balance. Fixed that Sea sickness tablets lests me function.
Benn suking up plenty of colloidal silver as well.
Went out on Saturday to watch some football, figured I was outside and could keep my distance from most people. One of my team mates who I saw there was coughing on average every 10 seconds. He asked if I wanted to go to the Bellevue for a couple of beers but I politely declined, went home and scrubbed myself clean. Don’t want a repeat case of it.
Note to Mikenmild – They still went to the Bellevue, enjoy your sickness 🙂
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.
Tom yum soup is apparently sworn by Thais as medicinal. Much like homemade chicken soup is known as Jewish penicillin. Mama Bear will make the equivalent from her home country for you. Feel better soon.
I heard some medical advice on Magic Talk but the first one is too late for you Pascal.
Keep your fluids up so the virus has more difficulty attaching in the lungs
To check your lungs haven’t got to the stage of needing medical help – every morning hold your breath for 10 seconds without coughing. If you can manage that you don’t need to see anyone.
Keep your fluids up so the virus has more difficulty attaching in the lungs
I’m having enough beer and Chinese spirits to have drowned a continent’s worth of virus now 🙂
That should flush the little bugger down your gullet rather than it having time to sneak down your wind pipe. 🍻
Margaret Thatcher, reputedly wanted every minister to watch this tv program, which does not age.
The Four Stage Strategy.
https://youtu.be/nSXIetP5iak
21 seconds.
So that is the plan.
Sure is governing by committee, & working conversational groups.
Repeat and rinse. from the top down, and then through each government department.
Now we know, so go and do what we need to do. 🙂 as always..
Fake News has made up a story Trump tried to keep a vaccine only for America. They also lied about him calling it a hoax.
Its disgusting the lies they tell.
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.
They already tried that with Ted Cruz’s father. I suppose there could have been 2 shooters. All the best conspiracy theories avow there were.
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.
I hear the Israelis are close to an effective vaccine which I hope the Mu slimes reject on religious grounds. Even better if they offered it and the Mullahs rejected it shortly before their collective meeting with ALLAH courtesy of several million of ordinary Iranians.
Don’t have the vaccine administered until all usual safety measures have been taken. That is years away.
OGW, who is a doctor, has an interesting video just out. Her final comment on the possible Israeli vaccine is priceless!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2VRCo4rbuY
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.
Stay away from kids.
They rarely get sick but are major carriers and spreaders of Covid-19. Only touch the filthy creatures with full protective gear and keep them locked in a 44 gallon drum.
If people continue with mawkish “think of the children” crap, they deserve to die.
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.
As aptly demonstrated by the sinking of the Concordia. Captain and crew first, fuck the plebs!
They certainly proved that with Costa Concordia
the Captain was off there before you could say Free pasta and Chianti !
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
Coronavirus: ‘Insane’ UK plan to let disease spread might kill half-a-million people – Siouxsie Wiles
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/03/coronavirus-insane-uk-plan-to-let-disease-spread-might-kill-half-a-million-people-siouxsie-wiles.html
The UK’s plan to let the deadly coronavirus spread through the population in an attempt to force a form of herd immunity left microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles in tears on Sunday.
Dr Wiles, who has been the public face of the scientific community’s response to the virus here in New Zealand, said it’s simply “insane”.
“I had a little cry yesterday because I heard what Boris Johnson is doing,” she told The AM Show on Monday.
“Half-a-million people might die in the UK because of the way they’ve decided they’re going to deal with this virus.”
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.
Is she Twit Twyfords sister?
You mistakenly have assumed she has a Brain rather than a larger than normal large intestine with a direct connection to her mouth.
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.
There is a terrible dark elephant in the room surrounding this PANICDEMIC,sorry to be the bringer of really bad news but it will get Ardern elected again…
It has taken the heat off her shockingly bad leadership at exactly the right time.
I doubt that. She hasnt shown any leadership at all merely panhandled the responsibility off on yet another working group.
ABS, My point exactly.
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 changes put in place so far are common sense and I agree with limiting movement, etc. The danger is Socialist Cindy will enjoy the ease of law change under the Covid-19 conditions which allow her to implement laws as necessary. She has taken to her authoritarian duties with relish.
A comparison is the 3 Day week in Britain 1973/74.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Day_Week
During the coal miners strike and services were cut back severely.
The Conservative Govt were ejected for 6 years until 1979.
However, Fruity Heath was not a good PM anyway.
Harold Wilson became PM.
See the choices. Eeeek.
We face that !
The bit that worries me – suspension of elections. It is the perfect, logical vehicle for what she wants.
Talked about on the news tonight.
Coronavirus: Ireland shuts pubs ahead of St Patrick’s Day
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/03/coronavirus-ireland-shuts-pubs-ahead-of-st-patrick-s-day.html
The Irish government says all pubs in the country should close until at least the end of the month to curb the spread of coronavirus after videos of singing in packed Dublin venues sparked anger on social media.
The move comes just two days before the country’s national day, St Patrick’s Day, which traditionally sees bars across the country packed from early in the day.
The annual parade celebrating the day had already been cancelled.
Ireland has had 129 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and two deaths.
It closed schools and universities last week and advised people to cancel all indoor gatherings of 100 people or more.
That’s going to hurt. Closing the pub! Oh No!
Might need all them sex toys, after all!
Ireland shuts pubs? We’re DOOMED
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
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. 🙂
Yes simple math.
Reserve Bank slashes OCR as economy takes hit from coronavirus pandemic
The Reserve Bank has cut the Official Cash Rate (OCR) to 0.25 per cent for the next 12 months amid the coronavirus outbreak.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/content/tvnz/onenews/story/2020/03/16/hold-hold-reserve-bank.html
“The negative economic implications of the Covid-19 virus continue to rise warranting further monetary stimulus,” the Reserve Bank says.
“Since the outbreak of the virus, global trade, travel, and business and consumer spending have been curtailed significantly.
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.
Very wise. Batten down the hatches!
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 🙂
Adrian Orr leaves a lot to be desired in that dept.
He is also trying to enhance his powers and the current low IQ Cabinet simply won’t understand his clever (self centred) manoeuverings.
The best RBNZ Governor in the last 40 years was Alan Bollard, by a long shot.
Agree howitis.
Makes me wonder how he did so well with the Cullen Fund. Was it a case of the markets being so good any fool could have a achieved a positive result ? If so, how much better could it have been with a really good operator in charge.
Lock em up, or even better deport them immediately!
Coronavirus: Foreign backpackers arriving in NZ say they won’t self-isolate
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/03/coronavirus-foreign-backpackers-arriving-in-nz-say-they-won-t-self-isolate.html
A number of European backpackers arriving in New Zealand on Monday morning have told The AM Show they will be continuing to travel around the country as planned, despite new rules coming into effect overnight.
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.
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.
She’s serious. It was an extra frowny statement. Pity she has no mandate to tell us what the fuck to do as she dropped the ball big time trying to get her photo op at the mosque only for it to blow up in her face. The photo op that is, not the mosque. I thought I better clarify the last part.
Was it with extra head bobbles!
Agree Dave.
Apparently Korea has a phone app that somehow helps track people. NZ should at least look at it and see how it works.
Last night I mentioned the lack temperature scanning at the airports. Kea responded saying temperature measure do not identify the virus. No one is saying it does but a high temp suggests something is wrong and that person should be tested –so it helps to create an efficient testing regime. (eg. 1000 scanned at the airport –50 have high temps, a further 20 say they have taken medication for a temperature and are tested –say 2 are positive. 70 tests to identify 2 )
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.
Immediate deportation should be the rule in all such cases, no need for a trial just put them on a plane and alert the police in their home country why they are being deported.
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….
My personal belief is Jacinda is trying to wait until Easter and term holidays to announce a 2 week quarantine for everyone. By doing this she lessens the impact on the economy as most people take days off either side of Easter to extend the holiday. By then people will be dying from Covid in New Zealand given that we’re about 3 weeks behind Italy in the transmission of the virus.
The next 3 weeks is going to be reaallllllllyy interesting.
Beware the Ides of March. (Oh crap! That was yesterday!)
I live in the city but I have an ace up my sleeve. My parents own a farm. We’ve already set it up in case the country goes to lockdown. Be fucked if i’m living among ferals with no resources during lockdown. Gonna buy some laser pointers in case anyone tries breaking onto the property during the night. a red dot on the forehead with several targetted on the heart will convince most people a couple of beasts isnt worth the risk.
I pity those who don’t have a bug out location, shits going to get real when the poor realise they dont have the resources to survive.
thats a bit keyboard warrior IMO.
FFS calm down people,anybody would think there was hordes of flesh eating Zombies out looking for a feed of brains.
South Korea has said just now that their infection rate is slowing considerably, some people just like to imagine the absolute worst is going to happen, its hard to understand but the same folk would have spent weeks fretting about Y2K only to have zero happen, and of course then deny they were worried at all.
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.
Friends of ours booked tickets to Japan months ago. They leave on Wednesday. Their travel plans include stopping in Sydney for a week when they come back. I havent asked them how theyre going to handle 2 weeks of isolation in Australia when they land, then the further 2 weeks isolation in NZ when they land here. For what its worth, I would have screwed those tickets up by now and taken the 25k financial hit rather than be isolated with my family in a hotel room for a month
Stuff the Chinese cold. Check this out!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018737943/curiosity-is-killing-the-kea
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.
Ba boom. Never saw that coming goyim.
Such accolades when Jacinda does her job.
When has she ever done her job and got it right?
By the way, where’s Whinestone?
Not under my rock lol
There seems to be a lack of news coming out of India. I suppose the 3k a day cholera and typhoid deaths masks the virus.
On the other hand, African countries are starting to report in.
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.
I read a report that Asians has a greater number of ACE3 receptors making them more susceptible to COVID 19 Than Caucasians whilst Negroes have even fewer so that may explain infection differences although I suspect the African rate will not wholly reflect that due to a fragile health system and cultural practices.
Look here fellas, this COVID-19 is getting really serious.
So far there have been 5393 deaths caused by this terrible disease. Out of a world population of only 7.8 billion, this amounts to a staggering 0.000000069% chance of dying from this.
No wonder the whole world is shitting themselves. This is an even worse threat than climate change…… OMG…. what are we going to do??
Faced with
feardanger like this, it certainly makes sense to shut down whole countries’ economies, lock millions of people out of society and disrupt all international travel and trade, doesn’t it?Its killed 5393 more people than climate change so far.
I think you’ll find that climate change created the virus.
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.
Dr. Anthony Fauci says “everything is on the table” to fight spread of coronavirus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKwwh2Iai2w
One of the USA’s top health experts recommends continuing avoiding large crowds and social interactions as the best defense against the pandemic.
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.
250 beds available in Lower Hutt Hospital, 350 in Wellington. For a population of just shy of 250k combined. I guess closing the insane asylums was a bad idea after all.
Yes, the ex patients are all now politicians!
Wellington fuel price update:
Mobil Lower Hutt as of 8am this morning, $1.92.9 per litre of 91
Still $2.13 a liter for 91 at the local Z.
Well done to the Nix on their 3 nil win over Melbourne last night. Probably the last live sporting event in New Zealand for a while. They’re now cemented in 3rd, looking at a top 2 finish assuming theyre allowed to postpone games while they sef isolate in Australia.
Coronavirus: Foreign travellers who fail to self-isolate could be deported – Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/03/coronavirus-foreign-travellers-who-fail-to-self-isolate-could-be-deported-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern.html
Ardern said it’s possible that tourists who ignore the self-isolation rules could be forcibly quarantined or even deported.
“While we’re at a period where actually we might still have some international travellers coming in, [it’s important] that they know exactly what the expectations are of them and what our powers are if they do not follow them,” Ardern told The AM Show on Monday.
“We have the ability to quarantine them – put them in a facility, quarantine them, have a police officer stand outside the door and make sure they don’t leave. But I’ve also asked the question whether I have the power to deport as well,” she said.
“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 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.
She’s got to track the tourists down first. Last seen leaving in a rental camper van heading for ???
Good waste of a police officer ffs.
Quick, someone give her drug dealer the virus.
Her old one or her new one? Her old one is in prison at the moment.
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.
Apparently you can walk ride or run anywhere you like. Not sure about the eatong and pooing bit thgough.
So the bike trails should be busy.
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.
Be interesting to see how Jacinda enforces self-isolation on the the next lot of 501’s to land.
Great poll question today on ‘YSBP’ Ed.
What’s happening with your work this week?
Peter Williams has said there are two or three planes arriving from China every day.
Why is this happening?
To bring medical supplies says Cindy!
Covid-19 is here and spreading. It can’t be stopped.
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.
As a parrot, Kea could have an important role to play in summoning Nergal – the ancient Mesopotamian God of Plague and War to reverse the Covid 19 viral effects.
(Here’s a video of the ritual in progress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EneFmy8h1wQ )
The only major problem is that we require two Kea for this to work — and I am pretty sure that our resident bird is unique.
Exactly,
yin yang and wuflu co fluffle, so some good points, then out of kilter off the perch.. 🙂
Now will it be a dust bath, or a water bath?
Then the preening.
“Who let the bird out-who-who-who-who, who let the bird out”
Our cities will burn my children 😈
OK, who’s willing to put money on whether the court of public opinion will sway Cindy to ditch the min wage round? She’s determined to push ahead with it. So I reckon it’ll be gone in a week.
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.
I know Cindy isn’t very bright, but to insist on a pay rise in these conditions is electoral suicide. This is probably what happens when your most trusted advisors are marxist ex union officials who have never had a real job and fervently believe all employers are evil.
I couldn’t believe it earlier in the week when socialist Cindy said “the lower paid shouldn’t have to miss out because business is not doing well.” Where does she think the pay rise comes from? 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Waikatogirl,she’ll drop it guaranteed,courage is one thing she has nothing of at all.
To impose a wage rise on business right now is the dumbest thing possible,the only explanation I can think of is that Ardern thinks the extra cash is coming by way of a miracle from fairy dust land.
A lady on our local community network just posted this.
I’m writing this letter because I want to let you know why I am so grateful our prime minister and her cabinet made the decision they did. And the best way for me to do that is to talk to you about fire.
It’s been a busy week and yesterday I made time to go for a walk along the beach. The sun was a brilliant blue and the water sparkled. It didn’t feel like the world was ablaze. But it is.
This is the pink-haired Brit that is fronting up on the government run propaganda networks for Covid reporting.
Pass me a sick bucket.
Adulation of sub-mediocrity, mixed with poetic hyperbole.
I hope this link works. It demonstrates a great little teaching tool for little kids on the why washing our hands is good.
https://www.facebook.com/lookatthemlashes/videos/553846481894745/UzpfSTE2ODk5NjU1NzQ1NTA2MjQ6MjU1OTA1MzUzNDMwODQ4Ng/
Sean Plunket is going to be discussing in a few minutes why the Pacific Islands are exempted from self-isolation. He cannot find any reason for Ardern’s decision not to include anyone arriving in NZ from the Islands.
Better to restrict them from going back
Doesn’t explain why the PI’s have been put on an open border pedestal. Does arriving from the Islands include Italians, Iranian and other people from around the world who choose to come via that way? How about kiwis and our maori brethren arriving through the islands? Are they exempt too?
Maybe dad’s thinking of popping over for a holiday?
“A cruise around New Zealand has abruptly ended with passengers removed from the ship and let loose in Wellington.
Passengers aboard the Le Laperouse, a small cruise ship which docked in Wellington on Monday morning, confirmed the remainder of the trip around New Zealand had been cancelled.
All passengers had been told to get off the ship.
However, New Zealand Cruise Association chief executive Kevin O’Sullivan said the 150 passengers were not kicked off the ship.
He said they were told the cruise was ending – and most decided they wanted to get off. There was no option to stay aboard for any that wanted to, he confirmed.
One passenger told Stuff no restrictions had been put on their movements in Wellington. There was no known sickness on board.
Some passengers who had disembarked were seen getting onto a sight seeing bus.”
We’re fucked.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/120298962/coronavirus-cruise-ship-with-with-suspected-infection-misses-wellington
There’s another cruise ship that just told everyone to hop off. That it find your own way home!
Cindys cops are going to have their hands full chasing all these travellers around NZ. Must be time for another false flag.
“We’re fucked”
Yes in terms of stopping the spread and economic impact.
But most will survive the illness and scrape along.
I’m interested in the social psychological impact that we will see as a result. Kind of wondering if Labour can keep their pet ferals under control when they realise they can’t go to the pub or their dealers.
Not to mention the fact 90% of beneficiaries dont have food to last from 1 week to the next. Could be a very real risk of societal anarchy. Get ready to see more passive aggressive frowning and imploring from the useful idiot in charge
New York has now locked down schools, bars and restaurants next.
Anyone want to put a wager on when Cindy will shut down NZ. or are you all with me on an Easter lockdown?
Wellington Mayor Andy Foster has called on the Ministry of Health to release the names of hotel and cafe where an Australian with the novel coronavirus visited.
Andy Foster told Stuff he was certain customers and staff at the two businesses would be eager to know if they had been put at risk.
Foster said he himself did not know the identity of businesses.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/120301082/coronavirus-mayor-calls-on-hotel-and-cafe-visited-by-infected-australian-tourist-to-be-named
Well those business’ may as well close as the customers will desert them.
Will Uber suspend food delivery services in the fight to prevent virus transmission? One person carrying the disease could infect hundreds of people over the span of a week. Not to mention Pizza delivery, who generally employ low income immigrants to NZ
Still no reporters asking questions about the safety of reusable shopping bags, and what supermarkets are doing to prevent any contamination. Money machines are another high risk location. Sub-80 IQ fucktards the lot of them.
I saw a report that the massive outbreak in Italy was sourced from a Pizza delivery worker.
There seems some doubt as to the veracity of the story, but who knows
https://apnews.com/afs:Content:8622170027
Worth rereading this before pandemonium broke out. We are in this phase now….
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/23/europe/italy-novel-coronavirus-spike-intl/index.html
Every cloud has a silver lining. If I get pulled over on the way home from the pub I’m going to have a coughing fit and tell the cops I have the plague and am only breaking my quarantine to get medical supplies. I wonder what they would do? Worth a crack.
Judging by recent events, they’ll shoot you.
Not if I put my tea towel on and say the evil racist people made me drink.
Auckland Arts Festival cancelled and Homegrown music festival postponed. Cuba Dupa will be next on the chopping block
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. 😢
Don’t get down and troubled
I hope the future deportee of Golly Gees, has his performance cancelled aswell!
Jazz festival will be gone.
Seems the UK agrees with my prophecy of Covid-19 being unstoppable and my advice about saving resources for those who need it.
Kea: 100%
Imbeciles: 0%
Please don’t worship my graven image 🤣
Bwaaaahahaha imbeciles be triggered.
We won’t! 😜
A wayward nonbeliever from the cult of feeelzz before facts.
Get the bird gun out. Splatter. Kea shooting 1st of may. No crowds please.
Kea isn’t joking, he actually believes in his intellectual superiority .
Plague victim went to Milk Crate cafe in Wellington. A major hell hole of pretentious hipster millennials. Fuck the soy eating Labour voting pricks.
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.
He’s been relocated from the hotel.
Hopefully prison!
DPF has posted a major brainfart on KB…
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2020/03/is_it_time_for_a_government_of_national_unity.html
He thinks Jacinda and Simon should hold hands and dance around in a circle singing Ring-a-ring o’ roses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_a_Ring_o%27_Roses#The_Great_Plague_explanation_of_the_mid-20th_century
“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.
Cindy did say in Question Time over a week ago she would welcome suggestions from the opposition. The only reason she would deem it necessary to ask was if the COL had run out of ideas. I see she has been doing what that “horrible orange man” President Trump has been implementing for the USA. 😂
I think you nailed it Simpleton1.
I think that is exactly what it is about. If National go with it (even to discuss the idea) they are completely lost. If it is the result of Labour putting out the feelers then Bridges has to “put the foot on the throat” to use an old rugby saying
Wynston will be keeping a very safe distance from everything and everybody.
He is right in the firing line of most succeptable to catch and not survive if he gets the flue let alone Covid-19.
With his smoking, drinking, and all the other shit he gets up to, he is a very scared individual.
That makes a hell of a lot of sense, simpleton.
Read through the comments on his post and you will see that there is tough monitoring going on.
I think Nats will be nuts to buddy up with the CoL on this.
The major effect of the virus is going to be a gutting of our economy……might force some people to realise why we need to back our producers and not the arty-farty media set who are going to miss out some gigs.
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
Question is, who’s he selling the information to… If Labour can’t handle the crisis, time to call an early election and have shot of it. They’re toast if they even show any interest at all in the idea. To do so would be to admit political defeat.
Labour will never go voluntary, no matter how many trees are not planted, or how many houses not built, and the same goes for Winston Peters.
CoVid-19 deaths will be for Ardern a way of bobble head with out a hijab, but this time tears will really flow, as doing all they could, taking more control.
It is a numbers game, a game that DPF knows very well.
Will some other members split of a party and back a no confidence vote?
Is this post a way of unsettling some MP’s like some in NZ First ?
Could there be a trade off somehow? offer to a new position, like the Shane Jones Pacific Economic Ambassador in 2014, or some such concept.
The bottom line, is the numbers you can get, or swing, with a bauble or 2, to win a “no confidence” vote.
Ardern will have her fingers crossed there is not a real financial meltdown. Most millennials have only seen the upside –if their Kiwisaver accounts take a real hit then reality will hit home and they find it hard to take, as everyone will. But their age group have a different way of handling disappointment –social media will go mad.
Millennials will have time to rebuild their kiwisaver balance. The rubber hitting the road for them is if they lose their job from redundancy in the coming economic CRISIS.
Waikato yes plus the ethical investment bullshit was another hit.
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.
I’m a Political Blog
Its right before Election Time
I am going to post the most politically contentious, outrageous thing even my long term supporters can’t stomach it.
And you can’t call me a Fuckwit for doing so. I have a band of Stasi Mods just for that purpose
RIP KiwiBlog
Mind you, some fools still pay to listen to Slater’s ramblings of a diseased mind
Is this called “losing the plot” ? Or is it just a click bait post ?
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2020/03/is_it_time_for_a_government_of_national_unity.html#comments
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.
Soooooo…. how many of the “Europeans” [chuckle] with Covid-19 are white ethnic Europeans?
Cant wait for that vile little retard to start screeching at us about the Climate Emergency again soon.
You’re gonna have to be more specific about which retard you’re referring.
There’s so many of them!
Greta “Cabbage patch doll” Thunberg.
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…
This is how I think. Outside I try to be optimistic to my kids, while I am internally counting rolls of toilet paper and sharpening my machetes
From Tuesday 9am New York is officially shut down. Places that sell food can open but only for take out.
Please Ed. PleasePleasePrettyPlease,
Its bad enough we have to see Jacindas mug on every news break, paper, womans mag, coffee cup
Can we please not have her bloody ugly mug plastered over our favourite blog in Labour red?
Pull out the Rocky Horror tranny ones if you have to make a point
Went to the warehouse and turned her today!
I trust you sanitised your hands after touching THAT !
I don’t believe the ‘8’ confirmed cases grandson’s mother has a skype with a nutritionalist today Suddenly no face to face rgw child is 3
All large gatherings, with exception of schools, to be cancelled due to coronavirus – PM
All large gatherings, with exception of schools, to be cancelled due to coronavirus – PM
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/all-large-gatherings-exception-schools-cancelled-due-coronavirus-pm
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
I see Joe Bidens first line of defense against the corona virus outbreak is to stop……racism.
Sublime, exquisite, preposterous, damp patch Joe. What an effing winner.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/first-point-joe-bidens-covid-19-action-plan-stop-racism
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”
“Gatherings of more than 500 people should be cancelled to help stop the spread of coronavirus, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says.”
Ref: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12317127
Ok. So they are going to close all the schools then? (If not, then why make an exception for children? Does the virus care?)
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” ?
Y’all know this pandemic will be blamed on Climate Change by the left?
It’s done a great job of keeping the alarmists & their retarded little spokesperson out of the news.
Think tanks in deepest Tel Aviv are currently working on the angle to blame evil old white people despite China closing down and the world suddenly becoming a better place to live in. More news at 9
Postponed they hope? 🙂
The climate emergency people trumped by life’s little emergencies.
summit was due to take place in Sydney from 31 March to 2 April.
https://news.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/announcements/sydney-climate-action-summit-postponed
More like cancelled. 🙂
A saving to the long suffering rate payers, a great savings so knock that kibosh on the head.
How come this outbreak hasn’t been blamed on the Russians?
I thought they were experts with sending out viral bots.
With a dearth of verifiable facts anything is possible Maggy but perhaps the Russians are getting a pass this time.
But if there’s anybody about with nothing else to do this year that is about how long it would take me to be semi-convinced that the Wuhan virus made the jump from bats to people thirty kilometres away but independently from one of the most advanced germ warfare laboratories in the world.
That is stretching coincidence to breaking point & beyond!
Yes. How could the Chinese possibly prosper from economic collapse in the Western World…
Putin, Bolsanaro, Johnson, Trump, Kim Jong un etc, are all working together to end world wars.
When Trump meets these dudes they are unanimous in their goal. No animosity.
They have shown the world peaceful and amicable negotiations and agreements will always net positive results.
The only way to to defeat socialism is to not play the game.
Many elites are resigning from their positions of power to go into hiding.
The UN is going to be seriously hampered by restrictive funding.
The EU and the WHO are floundering, as the truth seeps through the internet about their despicable, devious, unforgivable attack on humankind.
http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/videos.html
Click on: Segment 5 – Hotwash and Conclusion.
Listen to these people from 8 mins 45 secs > 12mins 50 secs.
Especially, George Elias.
The new virtue signal, catch phrase they are pushing is “social distance”.
This is pushed to guilt people to stay close to their parents and grandparents in case they might die.
They want concentrated living. Extremely close.
It is designed to pull all rural folk into cities where they can be better managed or controlled.
There’s a reason Italy has had no EU funding or supplies during the outbreak despite being a full member. We could only hint at it here… UN, WHO, EU, all multi billion dollar organisations in disbursement of public monies (experts at keeping the trough alive to feed themselves and their degenerate life styles of hedonism and homosexuality, up to and including pedosexual habits, “fuck the niggas!!!!)…. What the fuck is going on? Germany hinting at 70% infection rate. Meanwhile in little old backwoods NZ, we have a PM who couldn’t buy a clue even if she appeared in drag as Magenta on Blues Clues.
Lately, I’ve been imagining her with a zipper on her gob and a padlock passed through the zipper tag and an earring hole.
She sounds so much more intelligent that way.
The UN has pushed the Agenda 21 then UN2030 line.
The UN is merely a conduit.
Instructions come from other sources incl Bilderberg.
There is invisible Govt and the ‘elected ones’ go through the motions of passing laws on roads, drugs, drinking age, jaywalking, and building standards.
The real work is done elsewhere.,
There has been demonisation of Russia for decades.
If you stop and think about where you have received most of your ‘information’ and then you add in the fact that many on YSB are smart enough to know that MSM are lying puppets you might want to do a re-assessment.
There is huge misdirection.
The Skripal/Novichok thing was nonsense. Only fools would believe the British Govt nonsense all led by the seriously disgraced PM, Treason May.
In fact, the British Govt has disappeared the 2 Skripals.
The demonisation of ALL Russian athletes when there is more drug cheating by the USA drugthletes (the list is so long but lets drop in Armstrong, Lochte, Williams, and Gatlin for a start) is a farce.
How about the British cycling team.
Mo Farrah is probably not clean.
WADA is corrupt.
It took more than two decades to publicly expose the hideous corruption at FIFA but , hey lets have a go at Russia.
The coup in Ukraine was orchestrated by USA.
USA has interfered directly in more than two thirds of Central and South American Governments and the Caribbean in the last 40 years incl assassinations and attempted assassination. They even skite about how many unsuccessful assassinations they had on Castro.
Then in the last 20 years: illegal invasion of Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iraq.
Plus dozens of secret wars and assassinations.
But hey the Media tell me Russia bad for ????
It is the same crap as constantly repeating ‘Orange man bad’
You have more reason to fear Fakebook and Google than you do Russia.
Try and set up an organisation that will supersede these and you will be either bought out or rubbed out.
The oil companies have been doing that for 100 years.
“Gatherings of more than 500 people should be cancelled to help stop the spread of coronavirus, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says.”
The announcement is not expected to effect either the NZ First or NZ Conservative Party’s conferences later this year.
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.
The UK survives on the black economy run within The City of London.
https://off-guardian.org/2020/03/14/sugar-and-spice-and-everything-vice-the-empires-sin-city-of-london/
Currency 2.0 waiting in the wings.
If the Fed folds in on itself, which looks very likely, you know what that means?
Oligarchs are done.
Fictitious assets and crippling taxes will end.
Fed takes emergency steps to slash rates and ease bank rules
https://apnews.com/cf1d8e5487eee5e9eb649f0c6700ded6
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.
Aaaargh I need to close off my italic tags, otherwise my thumbs up & down get the same format. Unless thats a wordpress issue?
test
end test =)
Sick senior citizen thrown out of hotel to wander the streets spreading infection.
Read all about it: How hysteria costs lives…
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/03/coronavirus-wellington-hotel-removes-infected-man-locks-his-room.html
Thought for the day:
If you need a supermarket trolley full of toilet rolls for a fourteen day quarantine then you probably should have seen the doctor long ago.
Come on mate, its in the British Bible
Thou shall not deny me my favorite daily curry upon pain of sharts
Coronavirus: Kiwis react with rage to foreigners refusing to self-isolate
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/03/coronavirus-kiwis-react-with-rage-to-foreigners-refusing-to-self-isolate.html
Kiwis are incensed after a number of European backpackers told Newshub they would flout New Zealand’s self-isolation rules and travel normally throughout the country, despite the threat of coronavirus.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced over the weekend that 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.
However travellers The AM Show spoke to on Monday morning openly admitted they won’t play by the rules, and would travel around the country as they had already planned to.
These admissions were not well-received by New Zealanders, many of whom have been forced to self-isolate or cancel trips of their own in response to the rising threat of COVID-19.
No worries mate, I’ve got Wayne Tamihere on the job.
Specialist assignment, long term Labour voter
Okay now I’m a bit worried.
Its speculated Covid-19 might be like a cold. As I suggested from the start.
But I missed the obvious significance:
1. There is no vaccine for a cold.
2. You can catch it more than once.
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.
That’s enough drinking for you tonight spaz.
Armed guards are result of imbeciles hysteria, not Covid-19.
The point is – we may not be able to vaccine against this. Ouch!
On reflection I think my friend was wrong. We will get a vaccine.
As I understand it the Cold virus mutates too quickly for a vaccine to be developed in time,
Hopefully these little bastards don’t do the same.
That will be the point that determines the outcome.
And, as with the 1918 flu pandemic, it is the second wave of the disease which is likely to be the real mass killer.
Air New Zealand to cut 30% of their staff. The evil part of me hopes it is the engineers that tried to hold the country to ransom a couple of Christmas’s ago. The slightly-less evil part thinks of what I’d feel like, suspect that it is still coming for us contractors and that it’ll bloody well hurt then so I can’t be evil today.
See I’m different and would prefer to see the senior executives on obscene money lose their jobs. Rather than engineers.
They will find it hard to ramp back up again.
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.
Donald Trump 40 years ago.
Why he was always going to make an excellent president.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAgJAxkALyc
(4 mins)
What happens if you have to self-isolate at home /small unit with others and one of you is:
schizophrenic,
a meth addict
a violent psychopath?
Does Jacinda really think everyone can just chill out at home and relax in the garden?
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!
Oh Dear ,
The Auckland Writers’ Festival in May has been canned.
I’m afraid, dear readers, I won’t be able to regale you with trendy lefty literary anecdotes this year.
And, more to the point, I’m beginning to develop Vietnamese and Korean Food deprival symptoms now that I know I wont be having my big city binge.
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.
We’ll convert you to Wairaraparianism yet Odakyu-sen.
After a couple of years of self isolation in Auckland you’ll embrace the country ways with a will. 🙂
O-Sen, those trivial acts of consumerism are more about fulfilling a need for social acceptance and validation, than they are about food and entertainment. It’s all for show. It’s what a person does unobserved that defines them.
There’s good – near brilliant food here in Gizzy and my increasing kilos are testimony to the fact that I get to daily sample more than my fair share of them; but we lack a Vietnamese diner/cafe and the Koreans who have set up or tried to set up here are just doing faux-sushi stuff, or even (horrors) basic Kiwi burger /grills.
From Maggy’s 7.51pm:
…..”Does Jacinda really think everyone can just chill out at home and relax in the garden?”…….
Hugzilla is instancing the schizophrenic policies inevitably displayed by a political party that has been hi-jacked. Such a party’s ideals are poles apart from the party’s initial manifesto. She is middle class masquerading as lower class & doesn’t think anything like those she professes to represent.
EG
National > party of free enterprise & freedom is taken over by Godnutters & social conservatives.
Labour > party of the working man now party of academics & social engineers.
Greens > environment evolving into hard socialism
Point being, none of them remotely resembles the original.
Exactly. Nothing there for the average person.
Almost as if it was manipulated and cajoled by a super power, you know…. planned.
They are the same party, same policy, same voice, same bunch of flakes.
ACT and DS are our last chance.
Bloody scary photo for sure!!!
Patrick Gower: Smile, Kiwis – we can beat coronavirus
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/03/patrick-gower-smile-kiwis-we-can-beat-coronavirus.html
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?
They should not have him front and centre, he even scares the animals!
Maggy, Gower is to journalism what Peters is to politics.
in a bubble echo chamber.
The Tauranga Jazz Festival at Easter has been cancelled.
The only option available to the organisers, and I won’t sulk for very long.
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.
That’s beautiful S1, but with respect, it isn’t jazz and he isn’t playing a trumpet.
Yes the “Blues” also did cross my mind.
Quite possibly the Blues may come back into favour also with how people may feel,
Playing piano and trumpet simultaneously.
Basin Street Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxMT1EdzFoM
Sure makes the gravy ooze through that trumpet. 🙂
and keeping the piano finger licking moving.. 🙂