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5:30 pm, May 28th, 2021 - 6 comments
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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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Mike King telling it like it is. There IS enough money, and the Ministry of Health needs to be rebuilt. If it is also true that it can't seem to account for millions of our money (how is that possible?) then a system overhaul is desperately needed.
I get the impression that it is plan as the trans Tasman bubble is imploding as the goal posts keep being shifted. How quick the situation has unfolded and no room for error. Human error will occur. In NSW there is detection of Covid in the waste water and it may not be people who previously had Covid shedding it.
See if there is a press conference during the weekend that there is a community case in NZ or if the bubble collapses completely stopping flights from Australia. I need to check what is going on with people travelling to Australia from NZ to other states apart from Melbourne.
It makes absolutely no sense that the limitations are only applicable to people who have been in Victoria, and are not inclusive of people who have been in contact with those who have been in Victoria.
That is one major misstep already. There has been nary a mention of "people who have been in contact with those who have recently been in Victoria"
It has simply been limited to "people who have recently been in Victoria"
The net needs to be cast as wide as possible at first instance under the precautionary principle.
James Thrace, the government can't hold every-ones hands all the time. Its up to people to have the presence of mind to know they have been in contact with a relative/friend or work colleague who has very recently returned from Melbourne and go and get tested.
One of the reasons NZ has done so well is because the majority of NZers do have that presence of mind and I don't see that changing.
And there's not a gazillion different languages/ understanding to negotiate
NZ needs to have the control of its own border in full and make the hard decision early on, instead of a partial decision which is full of holes.