What the country needs in a Prime Minister is a manager, not a sweet-talking mangler. Especially in a crisis, which is what New Zealand faced when the Wuhan virus began sweeping the world.
How hard was it to keep it out? New Zealand is surrounded by thousands of kilometres of salt water. We have a bit moat all round us. So all PM Jablunder had to do was make sure the virus could not get past the border.
She failed. After we had all gone through the turmoil and upset of the weeks of lockdown, and were rewarded with zero cases for three months, we then discovered that there were gaping holes in the border-wall--that there was scant testing, that quarantine facilities were hit-and-miss and easily breached--and we were fed lots of sweet talk from the PM and her bureaucratic side-kick in an attempt to fool us back into thinking all was well. It wasn't. The truth is that the Wuhan virus was here to an unknown extent, and spreading. Does Jablunder really think people are so stupid that we cannot see through her (excluding, of course, the die-hard Jablunder-maniacs, who would still think the sun shone out of her if she set off nuclear weapons in kindergartens).
Now, in September 2020, months after the crisis began, we are told that border staff will be tested once a week. But we are also told that that means laboratory testing and that the turnaround five days. So tests only show what the situation was five days earlier. And it takes days for symptoms to show, and all the while an infected person is contagious...
For months the Americans have had a machine made by Abbot Laboratories that produces a result in 5-15 minutes. Jablunder's government should have bought a heap of them, and they should be being used on everyone at the border. Everyone who works there, every day, twice a day, at the start of the shift and the end. And everyone who comes from overseas. And constantly in the quarantine facilities.
And the dumb-as-a-brick, Jablunder-worshipping media should stop using that stupid term 'managed isolation'. It sounds so benign, and thus fools people away from thinking how serious things are. Also stop using the even less threatening, every-more-stupid term MIQ, which is far worse than 'managed isolation.' The word 'quarantine' has been in English for over four hundred years. Use it. (And, by the way, it means forty days--our forebears obviously had far more sense than we have).
The words we choose and use change our thinking. Especially in a crisis it is vital that we use words that accurately and bluntly tell the truth. It's quarantine. And it should have 'strict' in front of it. No one gets out with reliable testing.
Jablunder failed at every point. So everything she does now is only pretence. Pretending to shut the stable door after horse has bolted. She gives us mime not management: Jablunder Allspin.
Bill English would have managed. He is a farmer, a hands-on, practical man, not a sociologist. He is used to getting down to the back paddock and getting his hands dirty to repair a fence. But he was beaten by the feminazis, who wanted someone to their tastes, someone who said loudly that she would give us 'generational change.' Which means 'social engineering', in feminist form. What damned arrogance! To think that she knows better than centuries of history. Her feet of clay are showing and crumbling.
But the fools who are easily led, the sheeple who follow any nonsense, have given us this outrageous joke.
