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  1. For the ones wondering, about the Beatle’s John Lennon’s son;-

    “Been listening to ‘respectable’ journalists quoting CCP official numbers for months without doubt or hesitation.
    Calling it the Wuhan Virus but only days later telling ppl who say it’s from China they’re racist.
    The official media have lost their legitimacy.”

    Then another tweet,
    “Excuse me how the fudge is this breaking news?” said Lennon. “And why do we need U.S. ‘Intelligence’ to tell us what we all already know?”
    https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/michael-w-chapman/john-lennons-son-official-media-have-lost-their-legitimacy-they?utm_source=wnd&utm_medium=wnd&utm_campaign=syndicated

    Wake, Woke those Journalists up Sean Ono Lennon, even if I have never heard of you.
    Send many more rockets up them.

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    • If isn’t hard to imagine the parentage of a person whose surname is “Ono Lennon”but Sean is 44 years old and a professional musician and songwriter. I wonder if he aches to have his opinion acknowledged as his own. It must be hard to live in such a shadow.

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    • Ardern and her media are using political shills, posing as doctors, to tell us masks don’t work.

      This is fake news. Masks do work. They just want to keep them for medical staff. Part of their effectiveness is they stop us touching our face.

      The amount of misinformation during this mental health emergency has reached bizzare levels.

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    • Ardern and her media are using political shills, posing as doctors, to tell us masks don’t work.

      This is fake news. Masks do work. They just want to keep them for medical staff. Part of their effectiveness is they stop us touching our face.

      The amount of misinformation during this mental health emergency has reached bizzare levels.

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  3. No wonder China seems to have got on top of its own CCP virus.
    Then it seems they export their shit to other countries.

    It would seem that a part of Aussie is actually doing something, setting up things to address the short fall of PPE stuff unlike this governments adhans of hope.
    Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said a ‘war production unit’ had been convened at the weekend to prepare Australia.

    ‘We have four companies that have indicated that they are willing to make ventilators and will be seeking approvals which have been given at light speed,’ he told Nine News on Monday.

    ‘At the same time, we are working on imports and procurements, large volumes of masks have arrived over the course of the weekend, additional volumes of testing kits.’
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8178365/China-imported-2billion-masks-peak-coronavirus-crisis.html

    Australia, Putting plans in place, with action.
    Ardern’s adhans across the land, to what effect?

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  4. An interesting study and explains why the pursuit of face masks may be factor in control.
    Hopefully also NZ’s more open spaces help.

    A Japanese report.
    SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Micro-droplets – NHK World report
    https://youtu.be/vBvFkQizTT4
    6 minutes 40seconds : Mar 30, 2020

    An interesting point, with the 2 metre distance rule, so it seems to make people talk a bit more loudly and so NZ needs to keep ventilated. 🙂

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  5. The media are trying to promote Ardern’s response to Covid-19 as “world leading” and exceptional. Nothing could be further from the truth. It was slow and unremarkable.

    Trump put border restrictions in place “reckless irresponsible and dangerous” screamed headlines.

    A few days latter Ardern follows with similar measures “bold and world leading” grovelled the media.

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    • Kea, It shows the incompetence of all in Government departments. The so called experts we pay huge salaries to annually, for what? When there is an emergency of any kind, they are ill equipped to deal with any kind of issue, I could quote a few other times we have been shown a lack of ability. It is a fascinating study in what is important to them. Obviously the COL are not able or willing to see us through all this. Grant Robertson’s pathetic “the Minister has apologised to the Prime Minister” was an OK answer to thousands of questions we as NZ citizens as to what the the mminister of God health was doing? Each day I think kindergarten is the right place for the PM to visit. My grandchildren could do better job organising the supply of covid19 PPE, than these officials.

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  6. If you want to see who Ardern has promoted to new plod boss YouTube RNZs ” new police commissioner Andy Costers first day on the job” FFS where did Ardern find this super PC buffoon?
    Just look at the way this saviour of the people answers a simple question “what do you think of David Clarkes mountain bike ride ” this guy has been schooled by the same person that has trained Ardern to side step, lie ,and talk all around the subject without saying anything.
    But hey he’s a man of action “go early go hard”, his first order ,every policeman or woman must shave off their beard ,Fuuuckkkk.

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  8. Journalists being labelled non essential? How can this be? Why, it was only last week they were ridiculing and labelling with impunity, and…..and…….
    I am enjoying this too much, I think.

    Hundreds of Journalists Are Being Labelled Non-Essential, Laid Off or Given Reduced Salaries
    Corporate media is being thrown into upheaval amidst the coronavirus pandemic

    https://nationalfile.com/hundreds-of-journalists-are-being-labelled-non-essential-laid-off-or-given-reduced-salaries/

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    • Isn’t it delicious?

      The rank and file journo – who has lauded, lied for, covered up, dissembled, made-up etc to protect stoopid Cindy and the fascistic CoL – are losing their jobs because of their Marxist idols.

      As the old saying goes “Be careful what you wish for”.

      And now a generation of stoopid Cindy-admiring millenials are going to get exactly what they wished for to – as they get to enjoy the fruits of the Venezualisation of our once beautiful South Pacific paradise.

      The fact that I can say “I told you so” doesn’t really give me much pleasure (btw – that’s bullshit – it’s almost worth the misery that is coming to be able to wipe the smug of so many libtard under-40s that I’ve come across)

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  9. This seems a very good idea – if only someone had thought of this before the moronic CoL banned plastic bags

    So it’s official, NZ has reached a new low – we’re officially dumber than the dumbest city in the US (this prestigious title is held by San Francisco – the city that has settled for the worst Speaker the US has ever seen – Nancy Pelosi).

    Even progressive shit-hole San Francisco now realises that the dumb-as-fuck virtue-signalling moronicism of banning single use plastic bags and forcing us all to put our shopping in germ-infested (ever-increasingly unhygienic) re-usuable bags is a major health hazard. They’ve outlawed the use of re-usable bags and allowed shops to give customers single-use plastic bags to take their groceries away in.

    I recall a lot of sane people in NZ complaining about the health hazards of stoopid Cindy’s government forcing us to put our groceries in increasingly dirty reusable bags. But as usual the fascists knew best – we were told to “trust the experts” and suck it up.

    I imagine that San Francisco’s plastic straw ban won’t last long after the café’s and bars open up again – who the fuck is going to want to suck their drink through a metal straw that’s had umpteen previous Covid carriers’ lips around it?

    I’d like to suggest that the YSB army write respectfully to Mr Bridges along these lines – asking for the plastic bag ban to be repealed (to be kind to essential workers and poor people). Let’s do this!

    Dear Mr Bridges
    There is much news coverage that many US cities are now over-turning their single-use plastic bag ban as a health measure to protect essential service workers in supermarkets from the high risk of cross-infection from germ-carrying re-usable plastic bags.

    Surely as a matter of respect to essential frontline workers in supermarkets it is essential that the single-use plastic bag ban must be lifted to protect their health while we need them most. I note that some NZ supermarkets have already taken matters into their own hands and have banned shoppers from bringing any of their own re-usable bags into supermarkets at all – I’m not sure how those who do not have a car are supposed to get their shopping home under these circumstances. It seems to be that we are not only being unkind and uncaring to essential supermarket workers – we are also making it hard for those less well off to get their shopping home.

    I think it’s a bad look for Government to be so far behind industry practice, especially when it is in one of the most essential of our services, and as such I’d ask that your committee consider raising this revocation as a matter of urgency.

    Kind regards etc etc

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    • Your idea of writing to Bridges is good in theory DP but he will not read or acknowledge it. Maybe send it to one of the other senior MPs and also to David Seymour. Even better send it to your local National MP ( or the nearest one) –see if they are awake.

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    • DP , I pointed this out weeks ago ,way before this filthy Xi Jinping virus, it was study out of Aussie i think and in no uncertain terms said that after a few uses they were about as clean as a toilet seat in a public bog, thanks two mums ,why don’t you just F—K off ?
      That POS Shawe actually admitted on RNZ that it was all just an international virtue signalling exercise on behalf of the greens ,and now that Cretin is keeping us safe from the Xi Jinping virus from his safe bolt hole with his taxpayer funded security,the swollen headed C- – T.

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      • Why are you asking Two-Mum’s to Fuck Off?
        When was the last time anyone heard from him or any of his coven?
        They f*d off a very long time ago.

        Now, if only we could stop the gravy train from calling at their house .

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  10. Bread and circuses.

    Obviously Cindy & Co will want the people to be under the wing of the state. They could not wish for a much better excuse than this. The state will provide the bread.

    Interestingly, it seems that saving sport is very high on the priority list for the fat controller.
    In a crisis, when there are repeated comparisons to war and that governments are on a ‘war footing’, who cares a fig about bloody sport?

    I love sport, but really, the economy is in the S-bend and they want to even waste time talking about saving sport?

    WHY??

    Because sport is the modern day circus of course.

    Without sport, how would you keep the masses distracted?

    In a normal, rational, and fair world, sport would be very far down the list of priorities I would say, and rightly so.

    It is a point of interest that there is so much emphasis on saving sport.

    Bread and circuses.

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    • I’m not sure your analysis is right – if I think back to the most visible of totalitarian communist regimes we’ve had over the past 100 years it’s not like they always went ‘all in’ on sporting dominance, well apart from:
      – the Nazis in Germany and their master race bullshit at the Berlin Olympics
      and
      – the USSR and the Eastern bloc countries who developed the science of drug-cheating in sports and got far ahead of the LGBTQi movement by turning women into actual men through massive testesterone dosages
      and
      – Communist China who isn’t even very careful about hiding their drug cheating athletes in an attempt to show that their regime is the way of the future in all ways to their downtrodden masses

      Oh wait – you may be on to something after all!

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  11. Addressing public servants on full pay – this is absolutely vital

    Re Ed’s post about the government being afraid to reduce public servants’ pay at the moment. Putting it here as there is no ‘back and forth’ debate unless it’s in HYS.

    The moment the public service starts to experience reality, things will start happening.

    Think about it. You are sitting at home, on full pay, doing nothing at all. It’s a dream scenario for your average indolent PSA member. You have reached what you would foolishly think is the true socialist nirvana that you have been taught in school is available if only we can (crush the male patriarchy, remove capitalism, defeat sexism, fight fascism, remove hate speech, welcome an infinite number of refugees, pay beneficiaries 10% more than the average wage etc).

    Take that protected, isolated status away, make it hard to pay the mortgage, start them worrying about putting food on the table etc – they’ll start whinging at their bosses and soon the whine will turn into a deafening “poor me” roar – that’s when we’ll see advice going forward to stoopid Cindy and the CoL that we have to end the shutdown.

    At present – this is just the best paid holiday evah!

    First steps should be:
    1) Time off is considered to come out of annual leave balances – for every 2 days on shutdown, one day of annual leave is used up
    2) Kiwisaver contributions should be suspended during lockdown – it’s only fair and during a shutdown fairness is as important as kindness
    3) CEs should be forced to submit plans to Government now for how they will reduce operating costs (translates to “salaries”) by 10% to reflect the drop in GDP – every month that the shutdown is in place. To assist with this – the more onerous and ridiculous obligations of the ERA will be suspended by Order in Council or under the emergency fascism powers.

    Do that and I guarantee you within 2 weeks the lockdown will be over.

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    • You hit the nail on the head with the term “PSA member”
      Shear the wages of members the country’s largest union?
      By any %
      In an election year?

      Next you’ll be suggesting PPTA and NZEI take a pay cut while they’re ‘working from home’

      Don’t be silly.

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    • Maybe all of government employees at home under lockdown should only be getting the $580 a week that robbo is shoveling out. Heck even put the likes of Winston and Clark etc on that salary for the duration.

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  12. I was wondering where the deputy PM has been hiding. And now we learn that Winston’s holed up in his bach in Whananaki. They’re telling us we can’t go to our bachs, (not an issue for me), but it’s OK for the 2IC. He’s as bad as Clark and his mountain biking. Next we’ll hear that #commsgirl has grabbed her private 727 and fled to Tokelau to stay with dad, where she can potty train to her heart’s content.
    PS Winnie – how’s the fishing?

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  13. time the Nats got a new leader.

    National Party leader Simon Bridges said he would support expanding police powers – even if it took a law change to do so.

    “It’s increasingly clear that neither the guidelines or the law allows police to enforce the lockdown,” he said.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/120785044/coronavirus-police-lack-power-to-truly-enforce-lockdown-rules

    The document starts by telling officers there is no curfew in place, and people are still allowed to move around as long it does not have the potential to further spread the virus.

    It notes there is no power to stop vehicles to check the occupants are complying with the Covid-19 health notice.

    He is no better than Bush.

    Read the article. They are bloody disgraceful.

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      • If you believe in personal freedom and responsibility, want an educated population who are free to determine their own future and want to pay a low tax-rate, while still providing support for people in genuine need the answer is definitely NO.

        I don’t think he has put a foot wrong, generally. There are things I’d like less of – for example immigration – but as an immigrant myself I can understand ACTs policy of allow people to come here, providing they hold New Zealand values. I don’t mind their policy on abortion or euthanasia, because they are about personal freedom and personal responsibility.

        All in all, I can’t imagine voting for any other party in New Zealand. They have the broadest, fairest set of policies and I think they will actually be able to change the way we live for the better.

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        • SOLD!
          David Seymour has stood by his principles and does what is best for NZ to maintain our economy and belief systems. He is the only one who stood up for the hunting fraternity over the gun confiscation. Most kiwis are good, straight up law-abiding and have the best interests of their family, community and country at heart. Seymour recognises that. He is not trying to change our fundamental way of life and financial system.

          Vote Act ☑️

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        • ……”they are about personal freedom and personal responsibility”……

          And they stand alone amongst the bunch of nohopers & control freaks who make up the rest of NZ’s politicians, present & prospective.

          There are two types of people. Those who think everyone should be controlled & those who don’t.

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      • Not that I have noticed.
        That’s what happens when you have a set of Principles. You don’t stray.

        I noticed in the article, I think it was, that the reporter who wrote it says that Simon put the heat on Bush. That of course is simply not true. It was David Seymour.

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    • Hooten was on Twitter the other day saying polls show Labour at 49% and National 36 %. It was a Labour internal poll apparently.
      If it is anywhere true it says the Greens must be bleeding a heap of support to Labour and ACT must be gaining a lot of traction –I cannot imagine many National voters going to Labour ( that would have shown up a year so back). NZF ??

      Then again it could be all BS by Hooten.

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    • No no no. Who wuda believed it. Our commie chick telling more lies.

      She has been waxing on about the Police having all the powers they required. Utter bull shit.

      She wants to take lessons from the Police over the ditch…..

      Stick to your potty training sweetie. One day you might just get it right.

      FFS we are governed by clowns.

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  16. You know that Netflix is bound to make a series about how the lockdown is changing the way that people view work, society, their local community and their family.
    I have a list of possible protagonist for a series of episodes:

    – A supermarket shelf stacker who realizes the true importance of his work in the supply chain
    – A singleton woman journalist in her mid-thirties who realizes there is more to life than clubs, air travel and boozy gatherings in pubs with friends
    – A family who rediscover each other when forced to live together
    – An owner of a travel agency who’s world is turned upside-down
    – A local busy-body who finds a source of new power through the government’s new dob-in website
    – A man dying alone whose only wish is to hold his newborn grandchild

    Use your imagination and feel free to add to this list.
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  18. Coronavirus: What MPs are doing during the lockdown
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/04/coronavirus-what-mps-are-doing-during-the-lockdown.html

    During the COVID-19 lockdown, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Finance Minister Grant Robertson are in the same bubble, and they’re addressing the nation on a daily basis.

    But what has happened to the rest of New Zealand’s 120 MPs since Parliament shut up shop?

    They too are stuck in their bubbles. So what are they up to?

    Checkpoint called a few to find out.

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    • But but I thought the PM was in a bubble at Robs old stamping ground at prenier house with mim & dad and baby and the big boy baby.
      Is robbo sleeping there to?

      Alf will be peaved.

      Mind you with her one might well say she looks transexual. Always had my doubts about her being a her. Remember that photo?

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    • I’m bloody outraged that a journalist for Checkpoint appears to have phoned Members of Parliament at home and asked “What are you wearing?”
      Why would anyone who isn’t a pervert need to know what MPs are wearing?

      While the spare rooms, the dining tables, the garages of the voting public are cluttered with ‘working from home’ often for a substantially reduced pay packet, people want to know if there is a single one of their elected representatives earning their over generous salaries + expenses?

      Checkpoint misses the point – again.

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  19. Hope other supermarkets get themselves sorted for the customers. Makes sense instead of standing in line close together in the hot sun or pouring rain.

    Long lockdown queues get the boot in new virtual queue trial

    A new feature of daily lockdown life has been the snaking queues running from supermarkets’ front doors and through the carparks, in all weather conditions.
    https://www.tvnz.co.nz/content/tvnz/onenews/story/2020/04/03/long-lockdown-queues-get-the-boot-in-new-virtual-queue-trial.html?auto=6146775761001

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  20. Just in case you were wondering how New Zealand will implement the next stage of monitoring this is the latest from France 24
    As we know the chain goes like this. Europe > France > Canada > Australia > NZ.
    But hey, what the fuck do I know?

    The Debate
    The road to deconfinement: Should mobile phones track Covid-19 carriers?

    https://www.france24.com/en/20200402-debate-the-road-to-deconfinement-should-mobile-phones-track-covid-19-carriers

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      • Leave it at home
        on a charger.

        Just get it to forward, send on, to your other phone, or check back to the “official” phone 🙂
        Possibly a ready made set up photo reply to be triggered to be sent back.

        Will the police have good enough security systems?
        Like letting people acquire information about your drivers licence, or passport, and politically trying to hide that they were a party to divulging to any dubious character, information that you may have a gun. That is proven by the number of lapses.

        What other systems do they open up, like to bank accounts?
        Just a scamming police system, & demanded with menaces.

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        • Proof of vaccination doesn’t allow for that luxury.
          No proof no access, to anything.
          To overcome those who refuse…… vaccination with micro chip.

          Kea.
          Do you remember when you first posted your concerns about the police and received multiple downticks, for whatever reason?
          Thanks for the heads up.👍

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      • Since lockdown the step counter on my phone shows an average of 8 per day.
        Granted, I have been observing the rules and haven’t been far from home, but the phone and I have been leading very separate lives for the last ten days.
        Monitoring the phone is not monitoring the person.

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  21. Ardern closed green grocers, butcher and fish shops. On the basis large foreign owned supermarkets sold similar things.

    Prices are through the roof. Meat is running out, as are multiple other lines.

    We are a captive population dependent on ruthless supermarket networks. Are they donating to the Labour Party? I believe so.

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  22. Coronavirus: Grant Robertson hints at potential rent freeze for business
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/04/coronavirus-grant-robertson-hints-at-potential-rent-freeze-for-business.html

    With the country on a pandemic alert level 4 lockdown for four weeks – and possibly longer – both employees and employers are hurting.

    The Government moved fast to announce a wage subsidy scheme to encourage bosses to keep their staff, and on Friday revealed new rules allowing businesses to put debts into ‘hibernation’, if the majority of their creditors agreed.

    “Most of those creditors will have a good understanding of how that business operates,” Finance Minister Grant Robertson told Newshub Nation on Saturday.

    “They’ll know whether it was a going concern going into this and whether it should be on the other side.”

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    • Most businesses will be looking at clause 27.5 in their lease. Until that is sorted out only a complete moron would try raising the rent, not that Robertson would have a clue about how such mundane things operate.

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  23. Democrats Rage as Google Bans Ads From Trump’s COVID-19-Critics

    “…staffers of several Democratic nonprofits and digital ad firms realized this week that they would not be able to use Google’s dominant ad tools to spread true information about President Trump’s handling of the outbreak on YouTube and other Google platforms. The company only allows PSA-style ads from government agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and trusted health bodies like the World Health Organization. Multiple Democratic and progressive strategists were rebuked when they tried to place Google ads criticizing the Trump administration’s response to coronavirus, officials within the firms told Protocol.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/democrats-rage-google-bans-ads-trumps-covid-19-critics

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  24. In Tokyo yesterday 89 new Wuhan flu cases, of which 60% are untraceable. The governor of Tokyo is urging the Prime Minister to call for a lockdown, but Abe is concerned about the destruction of peoples’ livelihoods. The governor is telling Tokyoites to be ready for a loackdown at any time.
    Across the whole of Japan, 353 new cases yesterday (the first day the increase has topped 300). The policy has been to send ALL of these people to hospitals, but the reality is that even Japan doesn’t have the capacity, so local bodies are discussing sending all the non-serious cases to the empty hotels. (There are a LOT of empty hotels in Japan at the moment, as well the facilities built to house athletes for the postponed Olympics.)

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  25. OUTRAGEOUS! Dr. Birx Pushes COMPLETE RUBBISH on American Public — Insists without One Iota of Proof that the US Economic Suicide Cut Coronavirus Deaths by Over a Million Deaths! (VIDEO)

    “When Americans are not able to feed their babies or buy bread in June they can thank conspiracy theorists like Dr. Deborah Birx.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/outrageous-dr-birx-serves-complete-rubbish-to-american-public-insists-without-one-iota-of-proof-that-the-us-economic-suicide-cut-coronavirus-deaths-by-over-a-million-deaths-video/

    Outrageous! Dr. Birx Went All-In on Bill Gates-Funded Coronavirus Model – Sits on Gates-Funded Foundation Board

    Dr. Birx is pushing a Bill Gates-funded model to scare the American public.

    She also sits on the board of a Gates-funded foundation.

    This potential conflict of interest demands answers since the garbage IHME Coronavirus model that she is using crashed the stock market and spiked unemployment.

    There is a lot at stake here.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/outrageous-dr-birx-went-bill-gates-funded-coronavirus-model-sits-gates-funded-foundation-board/

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  26. I wonder if I was unlucky enough to be stopped police. Record encounter When told I should not be out and about Go home .Is that not a breach of my rights l support the lockdown I think .But sometimes you just gotta get out .

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  27. Enough protestations and after a week turned back the decision of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director General in October 2017 when he appointed Robert Mugabe as “good will ambassador for WHO” for the recognition of the good health systems that he bought to Zimbabwe.

    Can the world do it again,. maybe a small part, but maybe the beginning of the WHO demise, particularly even if it fails, then the exposing of the corrupt UNicornical system, bringing that into more questioning.

    https://www.change.org/p/united-nations-call-for-the-resignation-of-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus-who-director-general

    Just coming up 706,000 signed. NZ time 11:47am
    Interesting aware comments of this sleaze bag, that works for the CCP virus.

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    • Posted much more on that WHO murderous bloody handed Dictator General. Tedros. and linked.
      As “Minister of Health,” Tedros reportedly played a key role in covering up epidemics.
      Perhaps the most significant example was his concealing of multiple cholera outbreaks, falsely labeling them water-borne diarrhea and downplaying the crises.
      He also bullied bureaucrats into silence about these problems, news reports and critics say.
      Later, as “Minister of Foreign Affairs,” Tedros helped the regime hunt down journalists and dissidents, including those who fled abroad.

      https://ysb.co.nz/who-is-missing-in-action/#comment-64648

      And our journalist support this guy!
      Ardern adhans about this guy.
      🙁 🙁

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  29. There once was a happy little fly buzzing around outside the shed, when she came upon a large pile of fresh cow manure.
    Since it had been hours since her last meal and she was feeling hunger pangs, she flew down to the irresistible delicacy and began to munch out.
    She ate ….. and ate … and then …. she ate some more! Finally, she decided she’d had plenty. She washed her face with her tiny front legs, belched a few times, then attempted to fly away. But alas …..she had pigged out far too much and could not get off the ground. She looked around wondering what to do about this unpleasant situation. Then she spotted a pitchfork leaning upright against the shed wall. She’d found the solution…..
    She realized that if she could just become airborne she’d be able to fly again. So, she painstakingly climbed to the top of the handle. Once there, she took a deep breath, spread her tiny fly wings and leaped confidently into the air.
    She dropped like a rock and splattered all over the ground… one very dead fly.

    The moral of this sad story?

    Never fly off the handle when you know you’re full of shit!

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  30. The doomers who are panicked about the Wu Hu Flu are in for a hard road ahead. The flu will spread – but now amid unimaginable economic and social devastation.

    The flu won’t be stopped. Flu vaccines are only moderately effective, even if we had one. Which we don’t. Misinformed hysteria has seen us invite totalitarianism while destroying the entire global economy.

    You thought a slight chance of not getting mild flu like symptoms was worth it? Well you won’t later fools. Shit will get dark.

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  31. From Rebel News – Canada
    “Every day, our journalists put on a protective face mask and go to the airport, to report on the continuous stream of flights arriving from foreign countries.
    It’s surprising to most Canadians when they learn that foreign flights still arrive daily — including from virus hot-spots like China.
    But it’s downright shocking when they learn that there is no screening at all at our airports. There are no temperature tests, and no face masks handed out to foreign arrivals who then connect on to domestic flights — something specifically promised by Health Minister Patty Hajdu

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  32. I had to check that TV guide isn’t one of the Bauer publications we’re going to have to live without, and noted among the titles that Bauer produce the AirNZ inflight magazine.
    Not that I feel remotely attached to either, but my elderly mum (for whom I still have a landline!) likes the TV guide, and the other one is for trivial pursuit (and there’s a lockdown on).

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  34. The Wuhan flu is going to spur many self-employed to take retirement a couple of years ahead of schedule.
    I think that they will take whatever money the State will dole out to them, fold their businesses and retire.

    They’ve had a taste of retirement, thanks to the lockdown, and find it to their liking…

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      • Some people can handle retirement better than others.

        Retirement for some managers in Japan can be devastating because all they have is their job. Their job provides them with status and a stream of people wanting to be their acquaintances. Once they retire, their status and the phone calls all end.

        Of course, it begs the question that if these men are so intelligent, why could they not think deeply about retirement years ahead of time and plan for the eventuality?

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        • I reckon some of it depends on how you earned your living before retirement. For the last thirty years I was self employed on my own property. In that situation you make your own decisions & your own mistakes but you don’t have to justify yourself to outside interference. If you’re not self motivated you’ll never make half way point.

          If you’re so equipped as well as comfortable with your own company & that of family & close friends retirement is a walk in the park but you still need something to do. Boating & fishing up until last Wednesday did it for me.

          A little like translating probably works for you.

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        • Od-s
          “Of course, it begs the question that if these men are so intelligent, why could they not think deeply about retirement years ahead of time and plan for the eventuality?”

          That would be their ego! 🤔

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              • Actually, there is a spike in the Japaese divorce rate among couples at this life stage.
                There is even a name in Japanese for the kind of husband who is always at home and in the way: “Gokiburi tei-shu” (literally “cockroach husband”) a husband who has no job, and is a nuisance in the sanctuary of the kitchen (the woman’s sanctuary in Japan, like the man’s garage in New Zealand).

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  35. The State propaganda channel RNZ breathlessly announces the following.

    1. 10 people are in hospital with the Wu Hu flu.

    2. Only 1 person is serious.

    That is the basis of us destroying our economy and human rights. Fucking imbeciles !!!

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    • Kea
      I have just listened to the first half of Leighton Smith’s podcast No 57 (his latest). I think you would be interested –it is a discussion with Todd Huizinga who has been a US Diplomat mainly working in the EU . He has written a book (pub. 2016) “The New Totalitarian Temptation “. They discuss the EU and what it is really all about (a Utopian dream) and end up talking about what is really going on behind this virus lock down etc. This guy is definitely not your usual diplomat.
      It makes good listening.

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  38. Cheers! Salute! Down the Hatch!
    But the wowsers are out in force “Healthwatch group wants online sales scrapped altogether”

    Online alcohol shops halt deliveries after getting ‘swamped’ with orders from Kiwis in lockdown

    Alcohol stores across New Zealand are having to stop their delivery services because the demand from Kiwi customers in lockdown is too high at the moment.
    https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/online-alcohol-shops-halt-deliveries-after-getting-swamped-orders-kiwis-in-lockdown

    “I’m so sorry guys to anyone who missed out but we’ve hit capacity again so have to put the website ordering on hold we’ll we clear the back orders,” the company said on their site.

    “We’re estimating we’ll be able to take orders again on 7th April. Any orders already placed will get sent out.”

    A healthwatch group is hoping the Government will stop allowing the sale of alcohol online altogether for the remainder of the lockdown, believing nothing good is coming from it.

    Alcohol Healthwatch says that all possible steps need to be taken to reduce pressures on our health system to address the coronavirus pandemic and removing online alcohol sales from the list of essential businesses is one way to do that.

    “There is a direct link between the level of alcohol use in our country and the level of accidental and self-inflicted injuries and other alcohol-related conditions that require medical or police assistance,” said Dr Nicki Jackson, director of Alcohol Healthwatch.

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  41. Dickhead alert! Even without the virus that’s disgusting.

    Man films himself coughing and sneezing on people at Christchurch supermarket

    https://www.tvnz.co.nz/content/tvnz/onenews/story/2020/04/04/man-films-himself-coughing-and-sneezing-on-people-at-christchurc.html?auto=6147000770001

    “I’m sorry for this prank that was played, It never should’ve happened, the alcohol had really taken effect and I have no sensor when I get this messy (sic),” he wrote.

    “There is nothing else that I can say but apologize to everybody, and assure you all it will not happen again.”

    The man no longer works for Graham Hill Roofing, the company brand on his clothing.

    Fresh Choice has acknowledged the incident in a post of on its Facebook page saying: “We wish to advise that we have been the victim of a malicious prank by a person who was under the influence of alcohol.”

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  43. Well, as most of you know, Im retired and living the good life here in Phuket. If you are 50+ it is relatively easy to do.
    There are a few hoops to jump thru but I have that down pat. I am more than willing to offer my services to anyone, guys and gals, interested in getting out of aotearoa. You only live once so come and enjoy paradise.

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  44. I see the latest headlines saying the virus may have peaked. What do you read between the lines of that? Some one is getting the heat in Wellington, maybe they finally understand what will happen to the economy , is internal polling for Labour heading south,
    have they run out of ideas of what to do ??? Feel free to tell us what you see between the lines.

    On a slightly more serious note —if it is correct and we are about to head down the other side of the curve then it will make all those academics and their models look absolutely stupid.

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    • ……”to stand in freezing rain and strong winds while waiting to enter the supermarket”……

      Then the empty beds in the hospitals will be full of people who have caught pneumonia & pleurisy while catching chills while avoiding Covid-19 which was going to fill the now empty beds anyway.

      Anyone else see where this is going?

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    • “that’ll be no fun to stand in freezing rain and strong winds while waiting to enter the supermarket”

      Isn’t that the whole idea of Jacinda’s ‘glorious’ Socialism?
      No standing in line for Jacinda’s family or inner circle! Know your place Waikatogirl….

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    • I mentioned over a weeka go

      big storms hit at that timer.

      Wed Dec 10 April 1968
      Wahine Storm
      After it smashed its way 2 days earlier in akl as Cyclone Giselle.
      Biggest wind ever recorded in NZ 270 km/hr fpor those who dont know knots

      Then 10 April 2018 in akl most damaging in 40 yrs
      Earlier ones have the big rain, later ones the wind.

      we could ask the storm to ‘Be Kind’

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  46. In these times of lockdown, all I spend my money on is food for my family.
    There are still automatic payments for utilities and back charges that the system makes from my bank account, but I myself have only used my cashcard three times in the last 10 days.
    Nothing to buy, nowhere to go shopping (apart from the local supermarket), nowhere to go, nothing to do (except exercise, housework, gardening, cycling, language study, and net surfing).
    It’s like my money is useless. I can’t consume. And I actually feel pretty good about it. I’m as happy as I can be under the circumstances, and it is becoming clearer to me than ever before than more “stuff” will not improve my life.

    Who else is willing to admit that they are kind of enjoying “*the simpler life”?

    * may not be sustainable

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    • Correct O-Sen and I hope others are enlightened enough to see it.

      Consumerism and pointless overseas travel are used as a crutch in a vain attempt to give superficial meaning to the lives of the masses and to try and gain social validation and approval among their chosen peer group. Our whole economy depends on it too.

      This is disastrous both socially, emotionally, and environmentally.

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      • I wish, nasska. I live on a clay pan known as Mission Bay. Horrible soil.
        But I did mow my front lawn (5 m x 8 m) with my electric Flymower this morning. It took all of 2 minutes.
        I do have one grapefruit tree and two Japanese yuzu citrus trees (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzu) in my front garden.
        We produced about 20 small jars of marmalde from the grapefruit last season, but the yuzu trees are still young and will not bear fruit for another 9-10 years.

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        • I’d never heard of yuzu. The only citrus I normally eat are Satsuma mandarins which grow abundantly & sweetly in the Far North. It may or may not be useful to you as a hobbyist grower but NZ soils are very deficient in Magnesium. It makes little difference in most pastoral & arable farming but the shortage is the reason for clouds of causmag over dairy farms in spring & citrus growers apply magnesium rich fertilisers to sweeten their fruit.

          If you have a clay pan you might get away with using the cheapest application which is dolomite lime. Talk to someone in a garden centre first.

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          • Nasska…in my childhood days, epsom salts was used for cattle bloat…thanks for the tip…I have a solid block of the stuff that I will dissolve and give the citrus (satsuma included) a drink of.

            Reminds me of an old ditty that my father used to sing to us as kids, where in one of the verses a poor fellow swallowed a clock, “and now he’s taking epsom salts to pass the time away”…

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  47. With a little effort the arseholes who own the Pak&Savs & Countdown managers of the country could sort out the queue problem if they wanted to.

    We can presume that 99% of their customers will arrive in a private vehicle, (a few will walk & leave with one of their trolleys), 100% of their customers will have a firm grip on their cellphone & at least a few will be able to read English.

    Why not a system where cars entering the park get a numbered ticket in return for their phone number which can be texted when they are within five minutes of being allowed in?

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    • A NW somewhere is doing just that. Seems the rest are slow to learn. Text the supermarket when you get there and wait in your car for a 5 minute warning it’s your turn. 40 odd minutes waiting in your car is preferable to standing too close to people in line outside the supermarket with frayed tempers the result.

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  50. This should get you all wound up a bit and asking a few questions about all the testing.

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/manufactured-pandemic-testing-people-any-strain-coronavirus-not-specifically-covid-19/5707781?fbclid=IwAR3eszjL_L2kpKXW4g2eQ6rvBxyiyYv82xe6cLiWCDbrtM4Z7JdJCJojn2ghttps://www.globalresearch.ca/manufactured-pandemic-testing-people-any-strain-coronavirus-not-specifically-covid-19/5707781?fbclid=IwAR3eszjL_L2kpKXW4g2eQ6rvBxyiyYv82xe6cLiWCDbrtM4Z7JdJCJojn2g

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    • R12’s link is well worth a read. Not long & written in layman’s language the main point is:

      ……”There are no reliable tests for a specific COVID-19 virus.”……

      Come back Kea……you may be right & we are being scammed!

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      • Many reported cases are clinically diagnosed. Not tested. So anything flu-like is probably lumped into the stats.

        The total global covid death toll is half the 2018 USA flu death toll. The USA is about 4% of the world. Think about that and the media response.

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  51. Where is the Health Minister the Reverend David Clark?
    Oh that’s right he’s home on cycling, driving and gardening leave!
    You would think a minister in today’s pandeminc would be at his desk in Wellington!
    Might as well give it to Twitford!

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  57. Like bees to honey. People were streaming across the city to buy their spirits.

    Sale of spirits, RTDs at West Auckland liquor stores to be banned during lockdown to stop long queues of out-of-towners

    West Auckland liquor stores will no longer sell certain drinks for the remainder of the nationwide lockdown as a measure to reduce out-of-area customers travelling long distances to purchase alcohol.
    https://www.tvnz.co.nz/content/tvnz/onenews/story/2020/04/04/west-liq.html

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  60. Our incompetent CoL are making a pigs ear of this lockdown.

    Growers forced to dump veggie crops due to lockdown
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/rural/2020/04/growers-forced-to-dump-veggie-crops-due-to-lockdown.html

    Growers say they’re being forced to dump their veggie crop because most of the retailers they supply have been closed.

    The level 4 alert means they can’t supply restaurants and cafes either, and they say they’re “facing devastation”.

    But the Government’s not willing to budge.

    Amid a health crisis, shut-up veggie shops are making Kiwis much-needed five-plus-a-day a lot harder to get hold of with supply cut off – closed and deemed non-essential by the Government.

    “Let’s start a process where we gradually open some of these outlets so that the fruit and veggies being grown by New Zealanders can be sold to New Zealanders to keep them healthy,” Horticulture New Zealand chief executive Mike Chapman says.

    The veggie stores supply up to 30 percent of the country’s supply and say that part of the food supply chain is facing devastation.

    “We have crops that are ready now which can’t go to market because they haven’t got a market to go to,” Chapman says.

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  63. For those that are trajics like me and like good up tp date info there is this site.

    GDPLive is real-time forecasting of New Zealand’s Gross Domestic Product.

    Using AI and a myriad of official and unofficial sources, the AI team at Massey University’s Albany campus has built a machine learning system that forecast’s GDP nationally, regionally, and by industry sector.

    Full explanations of how it works is here and its track record is here.

    New Zealand’s official national accounts are published about eighty days after the end of each quarter. But the data that builds these results is all available earlier, coming in continuously. That official flow, and some unofficial but highly relevant parallel data streams are what powers the results presented in the charts in this service.

    You can find it https://www.interest.co.nz/business/103950/massey-universtitys-clever-ai-gdp-model-now-hosted-interestconz-giving-much-earlier

    Been aroun d a few weeks and I’d forgotten about it.

    https://www.interest.co.nz/gdp-live

    3 months ahead of the Stats dept. and predicted Q$ spot on. Or dodd stats read their numbers. ( OHH you are naughty).

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