Don't Vote Then.

 On Unherd.com there is a subheading asking "How long can I vote for a Government I don't like?"

This question raises a point I have attempted to explain several times in the past: Does one have to vote to be part of democracy?

The answer, of course, is NO.

Deliberately withholding your vote if there is no one offering a set of policies (or trust) acceptable to you is as important as any other part of the democracy process.

The old "You didn't vote, don't criticise the government you got" is bullshit. 

I include in that the bone-idle lazy who find it too hard to get off their arse and to a polling booth - if they were forced (or induced in some other way) to vote they are unlikely to have put the energy into considering which team to back, which erases the point of electing representatives in the first place.

You'd probably end up with the Current New Zealand Labour Party or lying fraudster racists (or both) in power.

What a complete and utter shambles that would be!

Mad I Tell Ya, Mad!

 Headline on the AP website:

 

Woman who survived 1918 flu, world war succumbs to COVID

She was 105 for christs sake!

Goodbye, Farewell.

The PM has decided to take a tax-payer funded holiday to Europe.

Personally I think this is a great idea.

I will, however, have serious problems with the stupid bastard who lets it back into New Zealand after the holiday!

No Sir Bob, I'm Not!

 I'm an avid reader of anything that Sir Bob Jones puts into print, have been since the Muldoon years.

Don't always agree with him but love the way he uses words to put his point across. I envy that talent.

Lately however he has been using the label "anti-vax nutter" to describe those who refuse, for whatever reason, to get vaccinated against Covid_19.

I'm not vaccinated and have no intention of becoming so.

My reasons are varied, from not trusting a relatively untested vaccine that drops in efficacy very quickly to the simple fact that despite politician-led panic the vast majority of people in the world are still alive, most having not been physically affected at all by the virus - although many are dying because of the over-the-top reaction to the virus.

At the time of the virus arriving in New Zealand I, like dozens of others, was involved with the passengers of the Ruby Princess during it's ill-fated last trip.

Like many others I was enclosed in a small, confined space with these travellers for a significant amount of time.

The number of South Island drivers/guides and their close contacts who tested positive for the virus, in theory at it's most infective phase, from that contact remains zero.

Maybe the quickly-hidden Spanish study that showed the virus' transmission was reduced by sunlight, UV light and Vitamin D was correct.

I digress.

I'm not vaccinated, nor am I intending to be. I understand that I may be wrong and the virus may kill me if I am.  Just slap me a couple of pain-killers and let me die painlessly.

For the record I am NOT against vaccination, I'm not even against people getting the vaccine for Covid_19.

I'm  just this vaccine, for me, at this time.

I plead guilty to the "nutter" charge but I object to the "Anti-Vax".

MIQ

 The NewstalkZB website is highlighting a story about a backlash expected for letting athletes into MIQ ahead of workers, returnees etc.

I suspect that backlash can be avoided by allowing athletes representing New Zealand free entry back into the country while using the lack of MIQ spaces to keep ALL members of the current New Zealand Government and their mates out.

Arise Jafas! Break Free!

 No, Jafas should not accept a slight reduction in house arrest conditions (known as "Level 3").

Recent reports have noted Treasury is now estimating the average NZ lifespan as two years less than before the bloody dangerous (to us) govt. response to Covid_19.

Reports have also noted the increase of 100 deaths per month above expectation since NZ came out of the first series of house arrest.

It has also been noted that just the added cost of paying back the borrowed cost of the govt. led (ha fucking ha - they lead nothing! Don't have that ability.) response will reduce average NZ lifespans by at least two years for decades to come.

ALL decision makers and advisors (including, of course, higher ranking pollies, Ashley and the red-headed bullshit artist - among others) should instead be facing murder/manslaughter charges.

The incoming government ( while those bastards languish in gaol ) should introduce public flogging for the crimes the bastards are guilty of.

Meanwhile Jafas, rise up, tell the murderous scum "FUCK!", show a bit more intestinal fortitude than our gutless cricketers and resume your lives as they should be led.

Perspective

 Three people died unexpectedly in Timaru last night.

Two people died unexpectedly in Christchurch the night before.

Both town and city continue on, relatively unexpected.

A 90+ year old died in Jafaville more than a month ago, not unexpectedly.

The whole fucking country was shut down for weeks, Jafaville still is.

NZ needs a bit of perspective here!