How Far Ought The State Go In A Pandemic?
Even in a time of crisis, people have human rights that must be upheld.
Open mike 29/08/2021
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Gumming up the works
Last night it was revealed that National and Act had refused to agree to a proposed virtual Parliament sitting where questions could be asked, and instead wanted face to face meetings, even though this would mean a third of the country’s MPs travelling regularly to Wellington from a Covid delta hotspot.
Open mike 28/08/2021
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Daily review 27/08/2021
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Open mike 27/08/2021
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Daily review 26/08/2021
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Fuck-knuckles, cock and piss, balls does not breach BSA guidelines
The Broadcasting Standards Authority have ruled that the use of the words “Fuck-knuckles, cock and piss, balls” by student radio station 95bfm does not breach standards of good taste and decency.
Open mike 26/08/2021
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Daily review 25/08/2021
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Ardern Needs to do More Than Manage Crisis
For a country that has sought to form advantage for itself with strong and hard COVID-19 lockdowns, we’re not gaining any more advantage than yet another binge-purge cycle of supply tension and shortages, rapid economic downturn softened by tens of billions of subsidy, followed by unsustainable booms, over and over again.
The mysterious socialist hermit kingdom
Various commentators including Nigel Farage have claimed that New Zealand’s Covid elimination strategy is a failure. Our death rate and the possibility that we can again return to a normality that other nations can only aspire to suggests they are wrong.
Open mike 25/08/2021
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Daily review 24/08/2021
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China reports zero local symptomatic Covid-19 cases for first time in weeks
You probably won’t see this in our local media, as our pundits today debate whether it is time to ditch our elimination strategy and Australia gives up on it. China is also well ahead on ensuring its vast population is vaccinated as well.
Open mike 24/08/2021
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Daily review 23/08/2021
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Matt King caught blowing anti vaccination dog whistle
Former National MP Matt King has been publicly posting anti vaccination propaganda under the ruse of only wanting a conversation.
Open mike 23/08/2021
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Peak Globalisation
The first great era of globalisation from roughly 1840 through to 1914 took place inside a framework that we can now view as […]
The importance of Jacinda’s 1 pm press conferences
Jacinda Ardern has resumed the 1 pm briefings where she communicates effectively the country’s current situation and what the plan is. But National and some elements of the media are complaining, presumably that she is doing too good a job.
Open mike 22/08/2021
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The Covid vaccine may not be the nirvana
Claims that a comprehensive vaccination scheme will allow life to get back to normal ignores the experience of Israel, which despite having a large proportion of its population vaccinated is having a surge of new infections of Covid that is stretching its health system.
Open mike 21/08/2021
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Daily review 20/08/2021
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Farewell Dr Michael Cullen
Dr Michael Cullen has died, and with him goes a real standard-bearer for Labour for three decades.
RIP Michael Cullen
Former Labour Deputy Prime Minister Michael Cullen has died.
Open mike 20/08/2021
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Daily review 19/08/2021
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The antidote page for all those chickens
This is the page that I read at least once a week. With a clean brevity it gives me almost all of the strategic summary information about the progress of the vaccinations in NZ. Even it’s title is clean and clear. COVID-19: Vaccine data. But I’m trained in operations and rather more interested in reality rather than the average untrained pundit or politician who run around like a Chicken Little saying the equivalent of “the sky is falling” every other week. Thankfully they were ignored.
A little bit of understanding can go a long way …
Our online Persona is not us, but just a mask.
Open mike 19/08/2021
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Daily review 18/08/2021
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Here again, but Delta gives less latitude. So give less latitude.
We’re back in a Covid-19 lock down. Until we get to a very high level of vaccinations >80-90%, something that no state has yet achieved, this is our only realistic defence against outbreaks. Delta is way more infectious than previous variants. It infects the vaccinated to act as spreaders. Don’t know about anyone else. But this time I intend to exert my right to give less social latitude to idiots.
The importance of political leadership in dealing with Covid
Political leadership in the time of Covid is important. As the Government urgently swung into action and imposed a level 4 lockdown after news of a community case of Delta Covid who lived in Auckland and had spent time in Coromandel while infectious, Thames-Coromandel District Mayor and former National MP Sandra Goudie admitted to not scanning regularly.
Open mike 18/08/2021
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