Be kind - is that why they were allowing all the compassionate exemptions without first testing them? And the lax quarantine measures?
So much for being kind. More like a con job to hoodwink NZers into a state of fear and compliant.
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Obviously the gang members that attended the funeral in Dunedin during Level 4 didn't feel part of the Team of five million.
Nor did the people that were given the absurd "compassionate leave" and then did a runner. Nor did the two women that drove to Wellington and then lied to the authorities about what they'd done.
Running a Government on some crazy idea of kindness and believing everyone will do the right thing, will fail very fast, as we are indeed seeing almost immediately.
More on the kids
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12341432
The problem with the situation we have, is that whether we like the stringency of the lockdown or not, we are stuck with the massive financial and social cost of it. To squander its effectiveness by lax follow up on quarantine systems, is inexcusable and a dereliction of duty.
The "TEAM" of 5 million has every reason to sack the skipper!
Just listened to The Commissar B/s her way through an interview with Hosking. Cindy in full on "we can dismiss" mode. Continually denying the possibility of infected people having left quarantine when she doesn't know how many left untested...then just starts spouting test numbers that are largely irrelevant to the question.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12341670
Regardless of what you think of Hosking, he is one of the few broadcasters in the country to actually challenge the cult of Cindy.
Honesty and Transparency was her mantra wasn't it?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...-border-policy
Hopefully the below is a misunderstanding, otherwise it does look like a deflection in a very Trump like fashion.
She disagreed that the recent revelations about a slack approach to supervising managed isolation was costing the country jobs. She said Covid-19 is still a pandemic that is growing internationally with 8 million cases and over 100,000 cases emerging a day around the world. "We have to continue to take a rigorous approach, so I make no apology for that. "