Sheriff Ardern tied her horse ‘Marx’ to the rail outside the Karangahape Saloon and made her way through the dim light up to the bar.
“Barperson, I’ll have a RED-EYE (whisky). Evangelical Morrison has really stuck his didgeridoo in this time. He said I live in a cave like the ‘Croods’ because of my ‘elimination’ strategy. Crood Dad told the family to ‘never leave the cave’. Also that ‘new is always bad and we should never not be afraid’.
“Morrison has told the Australian states to open up and points to us as a failure of the ‘elimination’ strategy. He is following the path of the ‘let it rip approach’ of Johnson and Trump.
“We are telling the world we want to be ‘kind’ but in truth, our vaccination rate is very low compared to the UK which is 75% vaccinated and we only have 221 ICU beds for over 5 million people. Costa Rica is the only country in the OECD with a lower vaccination rate than us. For a Nation good at Rugby we dropped the ball, and failed on the penalties which was the ‘Delta’ variant.
“The international ‘hot takes brigade’ are even getting involved. New Zealand born presenter at GB News Dan Wooten has said we have a ‘zero Covid fantasy and it is a never-ending nightmare’.
“Mathew Lesh from the Adam Smith Institute said ‘what worked in 2020 will not work in 2021’ in New Zealand because of the Delta critters. He said the ‘world is looking on’. China, Singapore and Taiwan are in lockdown but their tracing technology is better. The saddle on my horse ‘Marx’ has slipped a bit and I may no longer be the ‘Covid Princess,’ more of a ‘Cinderella’.
“Unfortunately we did not follow our own mantra of going ‘early and hard’ in getting our friends out of Afghanistan. Ahmad a former interpreter for us spoke by video to the AM show saying it was too late to get out. The UN said killings are already underway.
“But the ‘early and hard’ mantra did apply to giving the Taliban $3 million in humanitarian assistance. Abdul Balkhi one of the leaders of the Taliban said New Zealand has been the first, the leading country as it has always been during humanitarian causes.
If only this humanitarian approach applied to women and girls. I did make a plea on their behalf.
“Musician and activist ‘Billy the Kid’ will be appearing in Court in October for defying lockdown. The Queen song “‘I Want to Break Free’ will probably resonate with him.”
I want to break free, I want to break free, I want to break free from your lies, You’re so self-satisfied I don’t need you. I’ve got to break free, God knows, God knows, I want to break free.
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