From memory, it’s about ten days since I last wrote an article and since then rather a lot has taken place. Auckland was put in and pulled out of a pointless three-day lockdown and now we are in a seven-day lockdown which will prove to be equally pointless.
These lockdowns are doing more harm than good. Lockdowns are not the answer to stamping out Covid. The best we can hope for is a relatively effective vaccine and adapting in such a way that we can learn to live with it, as we have with other viruses. If we accept that as the best long term outcome then the current modus operandi of the Government is highly destructive, bordering on trickery.
Propaganda, Petulance and Pernicious Behaviour.
The Prime Minister likes to call it a tricky virus. I venture to suggest we have a tricky Prime Minister. I am getting the sense from listening to talkback that this latest lockdown may be a step too far. Even the media, those people she’s funding to keep onside, are starting to see through the propaganda, petulance and pernicious behaviour of the Prime Minister. She introduced the word propaganda herself in something of a Freudian slip when commencing her berating of members of the Papatoetoe family for not following the rules.
The family, as it now transpires, did not break any of the rules as the family member in question was not advised to get a test. Even if they had been advised to do so, there was nothing to suggest that the KFC student worker should get tested; so that was two major slips in one speech.
These two blunders typify the Government’s handling of the pandemic right from David Clark’s Level 4 bike ride and beach walk. It’s been one error, mistake, gaffe, oversight and inaccuracy after another. I don’t recall David Clark getting half the bollocking this family is. He had no excuse, yet got to stay on in Cabinet, which only serves to illustrate what little depth of talent she has at her disposal.
In a top-class grilling from Heather du Plessis-Allan, Chris Hipkins‘s only defence was that everybody knows to get a test if a family member has tested positive. Technically yes, but a Government running a competent system would not rely on that. Rather than take the blame themselves they are blaming the family for another ridiculous lockdown. As a result, the family, and particularly the young person involved, have been abused on social media.
This behaviour by the government is utterly disgraceful. To blame a family for the government’s failure to communicate with them is a form of pernicious behaviour that we should not tolerate from any politician, especially the Prime Minister. It shows what little depth there is to the woman beyond the fake hugs and kisses routine.
The petulance shown is reminiscent of someone who hasn’t progressed far since her days at Morrinsville College. We, as a country, deserve far better than this. Hipkins is no better. He rails at the Tamakis for fleeing Auckland but there’s not a word about Willie Jackson, who was a participant in the decision to put Auckland into level three, staying on at the boxing. He was supposed to be acting as if being in level three from that moment.
The subsequent chaos at the border last Sunday was an avoidable scandal. People having to walk animals on the highway due to stress caused by the heat was a situation worthy of a complaint to the SPCA. Kindness, my rear end. You would have thought those in charge at the border would have had a separate lane for animals in the country of cones. After all, this is not their first try at this nonsense. Why hold up people going into Auckland? The idiotic lockdown was all about those leaving Auckland. But no, both ways for total socialist control. Newshub that night, much to my pleasant surprise, had virtually an hour of negative stories on the Government’s handling of Covid.
Now that the true story has come out regarding the Papatoetoe family, the Prime Minister has done her usual Houdini trick and, like Sleepy Joe, headed for her bunker. It is becoming more and more obvious we have a Prime Minister who has never been in control of anything let alone Covid. Her sole raison d’être is to implement her Agenda 30 Marxist policies which she proudly told Bill Gates she was writing into all parts of this country’s legislation.
My message to the Prime Minister is simply this: We don’t want Agenda 30 and we don’t want you.
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