The people brought this on themselves. Although I find it extremely hard to believe that 85% of kiwis are in favor: The data-manufacturing "pollsters" will take their lies straight to "presstitutes" who will read anything off a teleprompter to keep their cushy jobs. The bit of potential compassion I have for them is if they are genuine victims of MK-ULTRA or other government sponsored mind-control.
There is, as you say, no end in sight and I fear that things will only become more authoritarian as the masses demand greater and greater restrictions on freedoms 'to stop the virus'. Even now, if you disregard the rules you risk being reported to the police by a neighbour and pilloried in the media. The economic consequences too will be devastating. That is coming.
Unfortunately, when opposition parties in our parliament fault or challenge the government's strategy, it has only been to point out that the strategy is not hard line enough (especially when it comes to the quarantine hotels).
And the media are now simply government mouthpieces having received large subsidies since early 2020. No dissenting opinions are permitted. As our prime minister has stated "We will continue to be your single source of truth" and she tells us to disregard any contrary information.
The good news, if there is some, is that there is a growing awareness by a minority of individuals in New Zealand that something is not right and this movement is picking up steam.
Eventually all the money and credit will be gone and NZ will have blighted itself emotionally, intellectually and financially for a generation.
Image when anyone with skills or capital gets the chance to leave - they'll bolt the front door of New Zealand like a dog in heat - and NZ will be even poorer still for it.
Sad to see but utterly predictable what will happen to New Zealand. Visiting New Zealand is already like traveling back 40 years in time, soon it truly will look like Middle Earth from a Peter Jackson film.
What will it be like when there's no more money left to play pretend life in New Zealand?
I thought about ridiculing them for having their low IQ citizens running the joint, but that seems to be the trend around the globe, so they are not unique in that regard. Oh well, if they are happy, so am I! 🍺⛳️🥁
There was a Kiwi defending his system over on the Breaking Points reddit the other day. He said that sure Kiwis lock down harder, but if you look at their overall stringency index, it is on average much lower because most of the time life is totally normal, punctuated by the occasional totalist lockdown. I can see how this has persuaded a lot of Kiwis. As more countries shift to dropping restrictions and living with Covid, and as new variants make it impossible to stop community spread, eventually this argument is sure to fall apart.
The people brought this on themselves. Although I find it extremely hard to believe that 85% of kiwis are in favor: The data-manufacturing "pollsters" will take their lies straight to "presstitutes" who will read anything off a teleprompter to keep their cushy jobs. The bit of potential compassion I have for them is if they are genuine victims of MK-ULTRA or other government sponsored mind-control.
There is, as you say, no end in sight and I fear that things will only become more authoritarian as the masses demand greater and greater restrictions on freedoms 'to stop the virus'. Even now, if you disregard the rules you risk being reported to the police by a neighbour and pilloried in the media. The economic consequences too will be devastating. That is coming.
Unfortunately, when opposition parties in our parliament fault or challenge the government's strategy, it has only been to point out that the strategy is not hard line enough (especially when it comes to the quarantine hotels).
And the media are now simply government mouthpieces having received large subsidies since early 2020. No dissenting opinions are permitted. As our prime minister has stated "We will continue to be your single source of truth" and she tells us to disregard any contrary information.
The good news, if there is some, is that there is a growing awareness by a minority of individuals in New Zealand that something is not right and this movement is picking up steam.
Eventually all the money and credit will be gone and NZ will have blighted itself emotionally, intellectually and financially for a generation.
Image when anyone with skills or capital gets the chance to leave - they'll bolt the front door of New Zealand like a dog in heat - and NZ will be even poorer still for it.
Sad to see but utterly predictable what will happen to New Zealand. Visiting New Zealand is already like traveling back 40 years in time, soon it truly will look like Middle Earth from a Peter Jackson film.
What will it be like when there's no more money left to play pretend life in New Zealand?
I thought about ridiculing them for having their low IQ citizens running the joint, but that seems to be the trend around the globe, so they are not unique in that regard. Oh well, if they are happy, so am I! 🍺⛳️🥁
There was a Kiwi defending his system over on the Breaking Points reddit the other day. He said that sure Kiwis lock down harder, but if you look at their overall stringency index, it is on average much lower because most of the time life is totally normal, punctuated by the occasional totalist lockdown. I can see how this has persuaded a lot of Kiwis. As more countries shift to dropping restrictions and living with Covid, and as new variants make it impossible to stop community spread, eventually this argument is sure to fall apart.
“If you trade safety for freedom, you will have neither.”