1. Early in March, the New Zealand's Government began to instruct all international visitors — in normal times, the country gets as many as 4 million tourists a year — to self-isolate for 14 days.
Then on March 19, the tourism-dependent nation fully closed its borders to international visitors, a move that was likely effective because it came before community spread took off locally.
They NZ government demanded people quarantine at home or in local hotels, they covered the costs (hotel or loss of income) and they policed it robustly, yet kindly.#
In the UK people returning from Northern Italy (Ski Holidays) where there were numbers of cases emerging in February were not checked, not asked to quarantine. Yes, they were allowed to return to the community and share their good fortune, share their holiday photo's, compare their suntans to the pasty white of those who did not have the good fortune to take a mid term holiday on the snowy slopes.
They brought back the disease as a silent gift. This was not heir fault - the UK Government absolutely failed in it's duty of care to each and every one of those holiday makers and to their communities to which they returned.
There were travellers arriving from where ever the viral infection was emerging, at every UK airport.
There are still flights coming into Heathrow as of today, 11th April, arriving from New York and other locations where outbreaks are surging, and there are still no health checks and no request or provision for quarantine. ,
2. Just as importantly the Ardern government pushed a strong "stay home" message beginning early in the crisis, and implemented a strong social distancing ORDER as of March 23. The order shut schools and nonessential services and banned many outdoor activities.
It was not 'suggested advice'.
New Zealanders (including immigrants) have also received recurring payments the government designed to make it easier to people to avoid working, thus to remain in quarantine.
No similar policy here - I am self employed, if I apply now, I will start to receive income in May or June - I will be utterly broke and about £1000 down in bills by that stage, plus extra 500+ on a credit card for just to buy the most basic foods.
My income will be 80% of what I earned last year, which comes to about £96 weekly.
I never have earned much, but because I know how to live cheap (the artist must) I could get by. That is now looking less likely.
I am one of the lucky ones, there are millions of people in the UK are facing possible destitution right now, as their daily fare.
A member of Ardern's government caught mountain biking and beach going with his family even faced public condemnation from the prime minister.
Here a minister does the same, and a few words of complaint from dull witted pundits is all that happens.
Boris Johnson is getting praise from the media, for being ill and for recovering (a recovery made possible by frontline NHS staff taking daily risks) and is now in hiding, recuperation...
3. Contact Tracing :
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/07-04-2020/what-is-contact-tracing-and-why-is-it-so-crucial-to-escaping-covid-19-lockdown/
The core epidemiological strategy Contact Tracing and quarantining is not happening in the UK at all.
Nada. Take it on the Chin. Herd Immunity. (Hoard Immunity - protect the Wealth)
Testing is also not happening.
Massive disruption to testing supplies due to claims they do not work (the Government we are told bought 17 million)
How does a Government order 17 million of anything only to find that the product does not work?
Did they get samples and test those?
Did they examine the manufacturers evidence, their scientific and technical papers that must be publicly available, that prove the efficacy of the product?
None of this information is available, Government is not presenting it.
Just as they refuse to present the 'scientific evidence' for their original policy of 'take it on the chin'.
We do know they are urging British manufacturers to make kits. That pattern of cancelling orders of proven equipment, and then giving the order to companies closer to the Conservative donor base is one to be watched very carefully. Dyson sucks.
I was able to find working testing kits online on March 13th.
I wrote about that at the time on my facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/corneilius-author-crowley/covid19-testing/10156679678301402/
Here is that kit.
www.biomedomics.com/products/infectious-disease/covid-19-rt/
What is going on here?
4. The NZ government treated the citizens as adults, and told them exactly why these measures were needed. Direct, honest communication from the start. They did not rely on 'Behavioural Sciences' or 'Nudge' or 'suggested advice'.
That meant that from the very start that the citizens had provision of accurate timely information that they could trust, therefore engage with. Which they did.
The British Government treated us all like idiots and economic cannon fodder.
https://dwylcorneilius.blogspot.com/2020/04/uk-take-it-on-chin-historical.html
This has an historical resonance, one that approved state hagiographers such as Simon Schama are unwilling to acknowledge. The Irish and Indian Famines of the mid to late 1800s - 'let the people take it on the chin, protect the Wealth.' Same old, same old.
5. The Ardern Government injected a very well considered economic package to small and medium businesses, farms, community groups, the unemployed and arranged mortgage pauses, banned evictions, increased weekly benefit payments and worked with the larger corporations to make life bearable for the duration.
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/feature/covid-19-economic-response-package
The UK Bailed out the stock market and corporate sector, and provided conditional loans for British workers and small businesses, and the hope of future support to the huge self employed and gig economy workforce.
Yes, hope. Sometime in June.
And still is not providing adequate PPE for frontline staff. Employers are still forcing workers to work without adequate PPE. Universal Credit's online application systems are log jammed, close to collapse.
The British Government have co-opted every call for support and turned each into a wealth grabbing opportunity for their Corporate sponsors.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/03/its-not-socialism-its-another-mega-wealth-transfer/
Matt 'the sniffle' Handcough's writing off of £13.4 billion of NHS debt was a deliberate gaslighting sleight of hand.
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2020/04/02/writing-off-nhs-debt-of-13-4-billion-is-a-charade-what-is-required-instead-is-the-renationalisation-of-the-nhs-nothing-less-will-do/
6. This is the difference between New Zealand and the UK, and it has nothing to do with the size of the population.
it's got nothing to do with the population size.
NZ GDP per Citizen - $38,000 US dollars. UK GDP per Citizen - $41,030.US dollars
It has everything to do with the culture of power, and the compliant servility of Government, Civil Service, Parliament and news media as a whole to the concept of the Crown and The Flag behind which the Establishment Status Quo of Empire, the Plutocracy, the Spiders' Web of Economic, Political and Military Power hides, and which must be insulated from emergence of the ordinary citizen as an equal partner - the entitlement to rule is both genetic and by divine right, and citizens should know their place.
I have written more than enough about the regularity of scapegoating by both Government and Mefia in the UK, and how it operates. I coined the term 'political grooming gangs'. A term totally unacceptable to the status quo, and indeed to most people in the UK. Too bad. Get used to the smell of this cup of coffee. I am not going to alter my position because it is the honest truth.
7. The only thing holding the UK together is the decency of ordinary people. Nothing else.
Keir Starmer was raising questions about an Exit Strategy this morning. What a dull servile grovelling official he is. Exit Strategy? We are not yet even in the end of the beginning of this dreadful shituation and he's whinging about exit strategy? Rebecca Long Bailey would not be so servile.
Unless Keir Starmer (and by extension Labour, Greens, Independents, SNP, Plaid and decent Conservatives) calls for a unity Government void of the current Cabinet, (who ought to be arrested) a unity Government informed by epidemiology, clinical care, trauma informed social care and economic kindness to workers, funded by the Tax Havens and their trillions, he is a servile, compliant betrayer of the UK Citizenry. There is nothing more to be said. Arrest the Mefia barons too, who have enabled of of this...
The Queen is nothing. The Prince of Wales is nothing. Parliament is nothing. The Mefia are nothing,
The decency of ordinary people is everything.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
"Do what you love, it's Your Gift to Universe"
Thank you for reading this blog. All we need to do is be really honest, responsive to the evidence we find,and ready to reassess when new evidence emerges. The rest is easy.
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