A cut and paste from Point of Order:
"...is it a winning narrative first to exaggerate the catastrophic number of deaths likely from the coronvirus, striking panic into the population, and then to claim “We saved you”?
That narrative will not resonate with small business owners whose dreams have been shattered by the way the government has operated in the Covid-19 lockdown. Already many are convinced the government’s lockdown rules have been far too stringent, an over-reaction to academic modelling that was wildly inaccurate.
They are asking why NZ didn’t follow Australia’s example in allowing small and medium businesses to continue operating .
Then there is the problem with the word “kindness”. It worked very well for the Prime Minister as she steered the country through the threatened crisis. But how will that go if unemployment reaches 10% or more of the workforce?
The danger for the PM and her ministers is that hundreds of thousands of voters may come to believe they were hoodwinked into being confined in their cells for the duration.
That belief, if mixed with socialist policy solutions for the blitz on the economy subsequent to the pandemic, could prove a fatal political cocktail. The record shows the Ardern coalition carries too much deadweight in Cabinet when it comes to framing and implementing policy.
Peter Dunne summed it up neatly:
“Critical to this whole process of crisis management is there being an actual crisis to manage. That has been clearly the case in places like the US, Britain, Italy and Spain, for example, as the numbers of cases and deaths have been spiralling out of control and the public reaction has been one of desperate panic.
“While the potential impact for NZ was just as serious, the perverse consequence of acting early to avert the extent of the crisis has been that the extremes seen overseas have been averted. But an inevitable consequence is that some now question whether there was ever a crisis here in the first place”
What won’t escape voters is that the billions of dollars being spent by the government as a result of its decision to fight the pandemic in the way it did will have to be repaid, not just by the current generation of taxpayers but by future generations — and the prosperity which New Zealanders were enjoying just a few months ago may not return any time soon.
So, as voters approach the ballot box to cast their votes, will phrases like “ Be kind” and “we are all in this together” still be ringing in their ears?"
Complete article here
Personally I don't think there are any 'buts' or 'maybes' about it. It is one of the few comforting thoughts I have currently. She's gone come September ...
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5 comments:
But Lindsay, its 1500 bucks,cant we take a stand and do something else to show we aint happy chappies?
No, you’re right, Lindsay. We should have waited until it was too late and the bodies were piling up, like the US, Spain, Italy and the UK. No impact on their economies from this. Actually dealing with the problem and saving hundreds of lives was a terrible mistake! Now we can reopen, with the crisis under control, but there’s been economic impacts! Right wing voters recognise that. Normal people though, not so sure.
They can't make it contingent on voting for them. It would have to come sooner if its stated purpose is to be believed. Announcement Budget May 14.
The "bodies are not piling up"" in the way you imagine Judge Holden.
Presenting raw numbers out of context is misleading.
If the boffins who advise our Prime Minister had actually talked to the Italian, Chinee, Spanish etc halth authoitis instead of looking at computer screens dispaying models which could have been constructed by a bright year 12 comp sci student thn they would have known thet those at risk are the elderly with life threateeig co-mordities
And they wuld have also known that this particular bug is only a problem when it becomes entrnchd in health care facilities
2/3rds of our "deaths" come from one cluster that occurred in a dementia ward. That was so predictable. The diseae gets into a primary school and nobody notices it because it doesn't hurt children or healthy adults.
Some epidemiologists have been warning from the get go not to over react but the media ignore them.
Instead they are drawn like flies to shit to the doomsday scenarios and those that promalgate them who get their 15 minutes of fame, people like that pink haired microbiologist who in normal time spends her days playing with flourescent bacteria and has now found temporary celebrity status - a Kim Kardashian of science
What is now emerging is that the virus has been in the USA far longer than was previously believed and nobody had noticed it - and that is almost certainly true for NZ as well.
What is interesting is that there has been a big spike in deaths in the UK that coincide with the lockdown and a large number of these deaths are definetely not attributal to COVID-19 but when the dust has settled will almost be revealed to be the collateral damage of trying to stop its spread.
And believe me that collateral damage is going to be significant
The bodies piling up BS. Comparisons to Italy were part of the scare tactic to justify the panic decision to go to Lockdown.
On the 15th of March the NZ PM had obviously been briefed on the The Taiwanese strategy. She even announce NZ would follow Taiwans strategy. Hell one week later she was spinning the Italy scare to justify house arrest.
Guess she went with the BS Science....ie dumbass Models..
So how many bodies are piling up in Taiwan? Remind me again?
6..yep 6..No lockdown..Just a bit of commonsense with the population 5 times the size of NZ
and REAL close to Wuhan.
Or Hong Kong?? Piles of Bodies? Na 4..yep 4....
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