What With all the Palava and Hoo-Ha and Endless Hyperbole Being Engaged in By One and All Right Around our Globe at Present...A Hearty "Congratulations!" is Surely Due the New Zealand Government for its Decidedly Measured, Proportionate Yet Timely Response to The Coronavirus [Covid-19]]...
...and, withal, very specifically and well-targeted, excepting the following:
*an extremely negligible, even irresponsibly lax, approach vis-a-vis...
#the lack of any, let alone proper, airport/seaport - MANDATORY - quarantining of arrivals (whether kiwi 'returnees' or otherwise), let alone even testing of the same, relying wholly and entirely upon a fairly shaky, shonky expectation of self-isolation by the selfsame...
#continuing to allow the arrival of cruise ships - apparently no longer come Sunday next - surely a sure-fire vehicle for the rapid 'dissemination' of the Coronavirus were any desired/needed/required!
And for an international city such as my own *sparsely-populated Dunedin, with its plethora of cruise ship visits throughout our 'long - and this year far from - hot summer', alongside the recent arrival back of thousands of university students, a large proportion of whom come from other parts of the globe, quite apart from New Zealand - surely, alongside **Auckland, our largest city, a veritable sitting duck for something like 'Covid-19' - to not have taken such eminently reasonable and relatively moderate measures already...
...is a dereliction of duty of the highest - or, rather, lowest - order, whether that is a reflection upon national or local political figures...
*Like the biblical book of Jonah, only ever 120,000 or so at max...
*Though it'd ever been said to have a million people, and more recently 1.5 million or so, on talkback radio yesterday some wag put that at 2 million, a figure immediately downgraded by Newstalk ZB host, the eminently reasonable and considered, ever duly measured and proportionate, balanced and non-ideological Andrew Dickens...who 'guesstimated' the population there at closer to 1.7 million.
Postscript: As for the U S President's telling his fellow Americans to (as far as I can recall his precise words) "Relax - chill out...yes, it's serious and we need to take due precautions etc etc etc...but it'll pass and we will eventually move on"...
I frankly cannot fault the man...
except that his approach, and that of his Administration, thus far has been pathetic at best...
*an extremely negligible, even irresponsibly lax, approach vis-a-vis...
#the lack of any, let alone proper, airport/seaport - MANDATORY - quarantining of arrivals (whether kiwi 'returnees' or otherwise), let alone even testing of the same, relying wholly and entirely upon a fairly shaky, shonky expectation of self-isolation by the selfsame...
#continuing to allow the arrival of cruise ships - apparently no longer come Sunday next - surely a sure-fire vehicle for the rapid 'dissemination' of the Coronavirus were any desired/needed/required!
And for an international city such as my own *sparsely-populated Dunedin, with its plethora of cruise ship visits throughout our 'long - and this year far from - hot summer', alongside the recent arrival back of thousands of university students, a large proportion of whom come from other parts of the globe, quite apart from New Zealand - surely, alongside **Auckland, our largest city, a veritable sitting duck for something like 'Covid-19' - to not have taken such eminently reasonable and relatively moderate measures already...
...is a dereliction of duty of the highest - or, rather, lowest - order, whether that is a reflection upon national or local political figures...
*Like the biblical book of Jonah, only ever 120,000 or so at max...
*Though it'd ever been said to have a million people, and more recently 1.5 million or so, on talkback radio yesterday some wag put that at 2 million, a figure immediately downgraded by Newstalk ZB host, the eminently reasonable and considered, ever duly measured and proportionate, balanced and non-ideological Andrew Dickens...who 'guesstimated' the population there at closer to 1.7 million.
Postscript: As for the U S President's telling his fellow Americans to (as far as I can recall his precise words) "Relax - chill out...yes, it's serious and we need to take due precautions etc etc etc...but it'll pass and we will eventually move on"...
I frankly cannot fault the man...
except that his approach, and that of his Administration, thus far has been pathetic at best...
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