New Zealand has extended its lockdown, introducing more restrictions as the Delta variant spreads beyond Auckland. MailOnline has more.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced 32 new coronavirus cases on Sunday in Auckland, the country’s largest city, which has been in lockdown since mid-August.
There were also two cases in the Waikato region, some 91 miles south of Auckland, prompting Ardern to bring parts of that region into a five-day lockdown.
She added that the government will decide on Monday whether Auckland’s 1.7 million residents will remain sealed off from the rest of New Zealand.
Ardern enforced what was meant to be a ‘short and sharp’ nationwide lockdown in mid-August in response to the Auckland outbreak, which now stands at 1,328 cases.
But while the rest of the country has largely returned to normal life, the North Island city has remained in lockdown.
“We are doing everything that we can to keep cases confined to Auckland, and managing them there,” Ardern said.
While New Zealand was among just a handful of countries to bring COVID-19 cases down to zero last year and largely stayed virus-free until the latest outbreak in August, difficulties in quashing the Delta variant have put Ardern’s elimination strategy in question.
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Redefining the meaning of terms is all the rage these days. Haven’t you noticed? Rebate, bonus, non-taxable income – whatever it’s called, spend it while you can before it’s market value collapses.
Just to remind everyone that “vaccine” was redefined recently too.
And “pandemic”.
Having got into this entirely predictable mess with energy, I’m afraid I dont see any other good solutions that try to mitigate its worst effects as best you can on one side, and try to secure new supplies and lower costs on the other. Its the classic ‘Buggers Muddle’. I’m encouraged by the green light of fracking, and the Chancellors statement this morning. I hope we will see the repeal of Green Taxes and subsidies, and of the manipulations of electricty prices in the coming days and weeks.
She’s buying the win of the next GE.
Simple.
With our own money.
Of course, as always.
And the Covid and Ukraine related squandering of hundreds of billions was just the dry run for this and more climate change related squandering.
The resulting debt explosion and inflation will devalue that debt, but also eventually make it unserviceable, leading to hyperinflation, the collapse of the currency and ultimately the institution of a new one.
Then, we can restart.
Off a much poorer base, of course.
The bright spot of this is that the civil service&co incl. its pensioners will see its size, income and influence collapse to the proper level with and after that collapse, as, for decades, only what the public sector earns can be used to fund it, and/as borrowing will be unavailable even at then high interest rates.
See Germany from 1945-1970s as the blueprint.
The challenge will be to stay on a libertarian course instead of succumbing to a Keynesian one once the real and healthy growth phase comes to an end, like they unfortunately did in the 70s.
She’s certainly trying to.
The whole purpose of this is to bankrupt & collapse economies so that the country can be ‘saved’ by the bankers with a digital currency linked to UBI & all the rest of the scam.
It’s how the US has operated in developing countries for decades… All in the aim of control of assets.
It just doesn’t make sense to me, all this financial help for households, while welcome for many, is shaking a money tree that by all accounts is dead and ready for the chop. I really can’t see this ending well for the ‘man in the street’ (as they used to say). What amazes me is the government goes about wrecking the economy irretrievably with a certain sort of relish, like it’s a race to the bottom.
Oh, and I think we are going to have a cold winter too from what I have been reading, due to a huge volcanic eruption earlier this year (Tonga, January I think) which has put massive amounts of water vapour in the air – however, if this does happen it will all be blamed on us useless humans and our ’emissions’, natch.
….and all when there is no shortage of coal, gas or oil!!
just think how much worse it would be if they were really in short supply….?
I want to say clown world..but it’s so much more serious than that…I just can’t help but see it as a concerted effort to kill millions and send many more millions into squalor and poverty….
“I just can’t help but see it as a concerted effort to kill millions and send many more millions into squalor and poverty….”
Mass deaths followed by poverty and enslavement for the survivors. That is my summary of Agenda 2030.
Looks like things are going according to plan then.
We should impose a windfall tax of 80% on MP’s who voted for Net Zero. Until such time as it is repealed.
Great idea. And 100% for all the time they voted in favour of lockdowns etc.
This tax payer funded price cap must be one of the most expensive election gimmick (GE in 18 months) ever. What disgusting depths of scamming the Tories have descended to. We should expect more of the same in the run up to the election.