@Mountain_Tui But Nicola Willis said at lunch time the figures were 8k better than predicted by Labour in 2023. She was not challenged but this graph shows the opposite. Can anyone explain?
@sparksedit@EricaStanfordMP She should have taken the opportunity to just shut up! Her comments add nothing. Knowing when to say nothing is a gift she does not have.
@NatlClownshow And the "advise" used to kill Smoke-free, that document she "does not known where it came from", almost certainly came directly from the tobacco industry given the language used!
@black13830 All changes within margin of error, a fact the media ignore (very disapointing). To be fair most changes in the last TVNZ poll were also. Long term trend may matter but not a single poll!
@nzmrichards I could not believe what I heard on One News. Clearly Luxon does not understand what his or his deputies job will be. In a crisis the DP may be in charge and have to make critical decisions for us. Frightening!
@ELHopkins @mdgutierrez_7 Who are they! From my observations people (ie US) stopped following the advise/rules. The Government could not continue with restrictions without the social licence to do so. Not even China was been able to!
@ELHopkins No, it was not the Government who decided COVID-19 was over - it was US! People are arguing the labour shortage is because the boarders were not open, and like you that COVID-19 restrictions where eased too soon. Both cannot be right. This is a planet wide issue!
We don't have underpaid nurses, a barely-surviving healthcare system, teacher shortages, non-existent mental health care, massive teen suicide, and choking transportation infrastructure because tax rates are too high.
Many of the key people at the protest will never accept any fault for this, any of it. It will be “antifa agitators”, or the fault of MPs for not going to talk to people who had signs about hanging them. They have complete media ecosystems that will sustain this.
I drove past the convoy today, the squalor and the tents were confronting but the worst part was seeing people with obvious COVID symptoms freely walking around unmasked.
I have no doubt they are adding to the public health emergency and infecting Wellingtonians #GoHomeToBed