Daily review 22/02/2022

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  1. pat 1
    22 February 2022 at 6:34 pm

    You are witnessing an underfunded mental health strategy being exploited by political actors and an exploitative internet.

    Think things are going to improve?

  2. Muttonbird 2
    22 February 2022 at 6:36 pm

    Luxon's too uptight and corporate. He doesn't have that daft, flawed, jokey schtick Key had which appealed to Waitakere Man.

    Key was rich enough to not give a shit. Luxon only has seven houses so is not rich enough. The loosest he gets is an open pink dress shirt.

    That presidential thing he tried yesterday was cringeworthy. I think Ardern has spoken to camera maybe twice as PM, both to do with major Covid announcements. Luxon is a political novice and he thought a piece to camera was a great idea. Kiwis don’t buy that crap.

    Even though he ran an airline, I think it's going to be a long road for him.

    • tc 2.1
      22 February 2022 at 6:58 pm

      Wait and see if the media training warms him up. Key was an ace salesperson, luxons not.

    • alwyn 2.2
      22 February 2022 at 8:34 pm

      "I think Ardern has spoken to camera maybe twice as PM"

      Umm. What were the 1pm pronouncements every day from the fount of all truth telling us how wonderfully we were going and how if we didn't hear it from her here it wasn't true if not speaking to the camera?

      Or are you telling us that that wasn't Ardern but a body double who was standing there?

      • Muttonbird 2.2.1
        23 February 2022 at 8:28 am

        They were not to camera. They were to the public via a press conference.

        But Luxon thinks he's President of NZ all of a sudden.

  3. Muttonbird 3
    22 February 2022 at 6:56 pm

    Question. If David Farrar polled how many wife-beaters are at that clown camp. How many wife-beaters would have answered, "yes".

    Because I bet there are quite a few…

    • Chris T 3.1
      22 February 2022 at 7:11 pm

      Not agreeing with stupid mandates assumes you are a wife beater.

      Interesting.

      Or do you just think truck drivers are all wife beaters?

      • Muttonbird 3.1.1
        22 February 2022 at 7:19 pm

        Just an observation of the some of the types on display down there. Drugs, alcohol and aggression are rife. Not sure why you of all people are excusing that.

        • Chris T 3.1.1.1
          22 February 2022 at 7:25 pm

          I am not excusing anything. You kind of just have to show they are wife beaters before claiming it.

          "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?" is a stupid question for a reason.

          • Muttonbird 3.1.1.1.1
            22 February 2022 at 7:29 pm

            Farrar infers the majority of the clown camp are Labour voters. If it's good enough for the premier pollster in the country, it's good enough for me.

            • Chris T 3.1.1.1.1.1
              22 February 2022 at 8:14 pm

              So you are saying all the people at the protest who are wife beaters are Labour voters?

    • Tony Veitch (not etc.) 3.2
      22 February 2022 at 7:58 pm

      I'll bet there are quite a few misogynists!

  4. Ad 4
    22 February 2022 at 7:18 pm

    Good to see Deborah Chambers QC come straight out against the government limitations to freedoms.

    • Muttonbird 4.1
      22 February 2022 at 7:20 pm

      Link? Explanation? Anything?

      Or are we all supposed to do our own research.

    • ianmac 4.2
      22 February 2022 at 7:38 pm

      As a QC Deborah Chambers avoids the circumstances that we are still in an epidemic.

      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/lady-deborah-chambers-qc-baby-where-did-our-rights-go/A4PEA3BUNQ2TET4JPPIZLUXG5U/

      • McFlock 4.2.1
        22 February 2022 at 8:37 pm

        She sure puts a lot of rant on her knowing more about the various covid risks than epidemiologists.

        I also seem to recall that this question has been addressed several times in court, our rights vs the power of government to slow a pandemic and save lives.

        I also wonder how many folks who say it's not the role of government to save lives "at any cost" would change their tune if they were one of the expendables.

      • lprent 4.2.2
        22 February 2022 at 11:52 pm

        Also behind a firewall. So a bit useless in public debate.

        I find it interesting at just how much of the opinion commentary about covid-19 and the pandemic measures that the NZ Herald puts behind the firewall these days. I just assume if it is behind the firewall then it is shit aimed at their average reader – in their captive ghetto.

        Reading behind their firewall is what caused me to dump my subscription as being a waste of my time.

  5. Muttonbird 5
    22 February 2022 at 7:46 pm

    As many protest movements have discovered before, the state may not move fast, but it can always outlast you.

    Great line from Henry Cooke, who is doing good work. He's prepared to put himself in harms way in order to report.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300524060/convoy-protest-grim-mood-shift-at-protest-as-police-tighten-siege-net

    The protestors say they're not going anywhere? Well, the 95% certainly aren't going anywhere.

    • alwyn 5.1
      22 February 2022 at 8:45 pm

      There is one area in which the state is moving extremely rapidly.

      Yesterday the police at the demonstration were wearing protective vests but that was all. No shields, no helmets.

      Then this morning they were carrying riot shields but still didn't have helmets.

      This afternoon they had shields and helmets.

      Will they be the Red Squad reincarnated tomorrow and have added, and be using , long batons to bash anyone in their way? As someone who ran into them, also in Molesworth Street, back in 1981 I really hope not but I fear they will be there.

      Didn't we lwarn anything 40 years ago?

      • Muttonbird 5.1.1
        22 February 2022 at 8:48 pm

        The increased protection for police is driven by the actions of your friends in the protest. Flinging shit and battery acid, etc.

      • lprent 5.1.2
        22 February 2022 at 11:41 pm

        Will they be the Red Squad reincarnated tomorrow and have added, and be using , long batons to bash anyone in their way?

        I was at about half of the protests in Auckland. They started with no face masks, shields or batons.

        But I guess that an idiot probably threw shit or acid or some other stupid thing at them there too.

        Sheild and face masks are pretty good at preventing human fecal matter or acid causing medical issues.

        As someone who has been at a lot of protests, I keep an eye for the fuckwit protesters who want escalation and avoid them. 🤔

        They are a menace to making a protest effective. Also usually complete arseholes of humanity as well.

  6. Muttonbird 6
    22 February 2022 at 7:48 pm

    Question. What does the GCSB do all day, are they still searching for Islamic terrorist cells? Because they don't seem to be doing much else.

    • Peter 6.1
      22 February 2022 at 10:08 pm

      What they don't do is put out press releases every day itemising what exactly it is they're doing. Do you expect that?

      "They don't seem to be doing much else" is a ridiculous thing to say.

  7. Muttonbird 7
    22 February 2022 at 8:07 pm

    This is great. Now the clown camp organisers are blaming Police for not being harder on them.

    Significant concern has arisen during the past 48 hours over a notable lack of action by Police against identified individuals committing offences outside the protest area.

    – anti-vax clown camp organisers

    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/02/live-updates-latest-on-parliament-protest-covid-19-community-outbreak-tuesday-february-22.html

    Here’s some advice, idiots. If you are worried about bad actors in your midst. Pack up your illegal camp and GO HOME!

  8. Tony 8
    22 February 2022 at 8:18 pm

    Muttonbirds own words .." Or are we all supposed to do our own research." yes Muttonbird, yes we do need to all do our own research .. and let the research take you right around the table of thoughts being expressed, it is very important each of us research fully and roundly .. It's enlightening.

    • McFlock 8.1
      22 February 2022 at 8:45 pm

      Yeah. It's amazing how stupid folks can be. Blows me away every time.

      I once had to utter the sentence "could you please not smoke near the open head wound?" Truly enlightening.

      • Barfly 8.1.1
        22 February 2022 at 9:07 pm

        I once had to say "do you mind getting people to not bump into my broken foot" (hanging over the end of the stretcher)

    • Muttonbird 8.2
      22 February 2022 at 8:56 pm

      Hi Tony.

      You might be new here. If so, welcome. If not, you'd know that ordinary commenters are regularly hauled over the coals for not explaining themselves and providing links so that others can easily see what they are banging on about without having to go search for it.

      Time is precious for us all and unpunished glib, lazy shite from some doesn't cut it, no matter who they think they are.

      In my comment I'm clearly asking for a little consistency.

  9. Joe90 9
    22 February 2022 at 8:41 pm

    Welcome advice on getting the most out of an increasingly harder to find piece of kit.

    https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/how-to-prolong-the-life-of-your-n95-and-kn95-mask/

    • Shanreagh 10.1
      22 February 2022 at 10:02 pm

      Oh bother, no-one's going to believe my hole in one on the hole at the top of the picture as both the hole and my golf ball have gone! wink

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