Daily review 07/04/2021

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24 comments on “Daily review 07/04/2021 ”

  1. David 1

    The slow burn story that is going to consume this government in the coming months unless they do something PDQ to change the narrative

    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/04/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-defends-lag-in-new-zealand-covid-19-vaccine-rate.html

    • Pat 1.1

      May 2022

    • Morrissey 1.2

      The slow burn story….

      That's what the National Party "strategists", if people with such a laughable record can be so termed, would love to happen.

      • David 1.2.1

        I think you need to change the tense from “would” to “is”

        • Morrissey 1.2.1.1

          That would make my sentence nonsensical and incoherent. Like the National Party/ACT health strategy.

      • Chris T 1.2.2

        But yet no comment on the actual situation.

        • David 1.2.2.1

          The actual story is an average of just over 2000 vaccinations a day since they started. That ain’t flash when you need to do 10,000,000

          • In Vino 1.2.2.1.1

            Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

            Vaccination is not likely to be a simple issue. Why not wait and see how things pan out, David?

            Or are you like certain commentators who constantly spout currently plausible arguments, but then have a total memory lapse when events later prove them wrong?

          • McFlock 1.2.2.1.2

            The reality is that you guys are clutching your pearls over a rollout that's reached 95% of its target numbers for the weekly totals.

            The daily average for the most recent full week was in excess of 4k, because the program is scaling up… as planned.

            omagerd, everything is pretty much going as planned!

            • Incognito 1.2.2.1.2.1

              I have good reason to believe that those stats have been doctored by doctors.

              • McFlock

                oooo don't even joke about that shit, after the datapocalypse from the newborn hearing checks or whatever it was a few years back. I hate having to bin datasets because some jerks measured it inconsistently or incorrectly or changed their damned methodology one region at a time and then discontinued the dataset when every region had finally adopted the new methodology.

                I have good and bad days, but some data collection names still make my eye twitch.

          • Chris T 1.2.2.1.3

            But they will ride it out.

            No matter how much the vaccine roll out is shit and everyone seems to stick up g forr it on here.

            Think it is a herd mentality thing, mixed with Arden is a godess.

            • Drowsy M. Kram 1.2.2.1.3.1

              Think it is a herd mentality thing, mixed with Arden is a godess.

              Yep, must be a tad frustrating for rival goddess Collins, not to mention her eyebrows and other supporters, but that's politics – "Ardern Up!"

          • Incognito 1.2.2.1.4

            That ain’t flash when you need to do 10,000,000

            What a beautiful and bigly round number! Just like a Lotto draw.

  2. mauī 2

    Quite the fail from the left. Blame was often heaped on Trump for his border policy. Now it seems the migrant crisis has got much worse.

    "Nearly 19,000 unaccompanied children entered U.S. border custody in March — an all-time high"

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-unaccompanied-children-border-custody-record-19k/

    • Macro 2.1

      Quite Right! The Chumps border policy was so much more humane! /sarc

      While there is a slight increase in border crossings of recent months the context is that there has been a building of demand over the past 4 years and the figures while historically high are not significantly much greater than peaks of the recent past.

      In fact, there’s no surge of migrants at the border.

      US Customs and Border Protection apprehended 28% more migrants from January to February this year than in previous months. But this was largely seasonal. Two years ago, apprehensions increased 31% during the same period. Three years ago, it was about 25% from February to March. Migrants start coming when winter ends and the weather gets a bit warmer, then stop coming in the hotter summer months when the desert is deadly.

      To be sure, there is a humanitarian crisis of children detained in overcrowded border facilities. And an even worse humanitarian tragedy in the violence and political oppression in Central America, worsened by US policies over the years, that drives migration in the first place.

      But the “surge” has been fabricated by Republicans in order to stoke fear – and, not incidentally, to justify changes in laws they say are necessary to prevent non-citizens from voting.

      https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/28/republicans-politics-bigotry-democracy-risk-border-voter-fraud-trump-biden

  3. gsays 3

    I was chatting to the health professional in the house at tea time.

    She was called in last night to cover a shift that was 4 people down – 3 sick and the new persons visa isn't sorted yet.. At work they were talking about the bubble and the opportunities that will come.

    Flights and accommodation paid, basically one and a half times the rate at home and twice the rate for more remote contracts. 4-6 week contracts. All this during the wage negotiations and the current offer isn't flash.

    Just another side to the bubble.

  4. Chris T 5

    I rhink the point is why have Ardern on Hosking if she has said no umless good news,

    Tbh he is a pick, but the only one to ask her hard questions.

    If this is the case and it seems to be, then why would you be arsed?, why bother?

    It isn’t like Ardern can answer straight qustions

    • In Vino 5.1

      His questions aren't hard so much as thick.

    • Morrissey 5.2

      Tbh he is a pick [sic] but the only one to ask her hard questions.

      ????!!? John Campbell asks hard questions, as does Paula Penfold, as does Phil Pennington on RNZ National. Hosking is not in the same league as such intelligent and thoughtful journalists. Breathlessly and angrily shouting simplistic right wing National Party talking points is not "hard", it's obnoxious.

      • Jimmy 5.2.1

        John Campbell asks hard questions …..you're having a laugh!

        Remember his interview with Meteria Turei when he was virtually in tears having to ask her about her benefit fraud.

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