The 2020 Election Thread

[Bonez]

I once suggested that he installs spellcheck ... might help.


Then again ... might not either ... if he got too excited.


Knowing him he DOES have it ... but thinks he knows better ...


either way ...

Funny how pritch doesn't chastise the burk for doing that. Haven't heard from him in a while. I wonder why?

[FJRider]

I think he wants to be me.

No offence ... but I think there are others he'd much rather prefer to be ... than you.

[Katman]

No offence ... but I think there are others he'd much rather prefer to be ... than you.

None taken.

I suspect he'd like to be just about anyone else - rather than the sorry piece of trash that he is.

[FJRider]

Are you sure calling you Karan was not actually reported on the news.

There is an E in Karen ... you're getting excited again aren't you ...

Or ... there is an O in Koran.


The words are easily confused ...

[FJRider]

None taken.

I suspect he'd like to be just about anyone else - rather than the sorry piece of trash that he is.

Thank you ... if I was him ... I'D want to be somebody else too ... ANYBODY else ...

[FJRider]

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/natio...rtan-ntp-feeds

In plain English ... that might suggest that the Pandemic is far from being over.

Bugger ... eh ..

[Katman]

In plain English ... that might suggest that the Pandemic is far from being over.

Bugger ... eh ..

Which brings me back to my original point.

What sort of person would wilfully cause uncertainty in the community by refusing to submit to a test?

[FJRider]

Which brings me back to my original point.

What sort of person would wilfully cause uncertainty in the community by refusing to submit to a test?

Someone selfish and uncaring ... yes.

Is it legal ... yes.

Scared of a positive result ... maybe.

Has more to hide than they are wanting revealed ... maybe.

They ARE within the rules ... so that is their choice.

Have YOU had the vaccination yet ...

[TheDemonLord]

Raise him all you like but he didn't say that, if you're going to quote someone at least be accurate

Sadiq Khan has said he believes "the threat of terror attacks are part and parcel of living in a big city"

Sure, I paraphrased him, but I captured the meaning pretty accurately and it's still just as Moronic regardless if you use his original wording or my paraphrase of it.

[Katman]

Have YOU had the vaccination yet ...

I do hope you're not equating having a cotton bud shoved up your nose with having fuck-knows-what shit injected into you.

[TheDemonLord]

The BEST plan was for the work that needed to be done WAS getting done ... to feed and clothe the populace (and keep them WELL). The Primary industries were working to fulfill this basic need. The Wage subsidy helped as an incentive to employers to keep their workers working ... and even if they weren't working ... to (literally) afford them time (AND money) to prepare for restart.

The result was ... the working populace still had money ... and something positive to think of for their future. Remember ... $15 in every $100 that is/was spent ... goes directly (and immediately) back into the Government coffers ... so money was going both ways. The rest being still in circulation. Nothing much beats money in circulation to help any economy. Even if some businesses didn't need the handout (but took it anyway because they were entitled to it and qualified to get it [and who could blame them]) ... money in the bank is good insurance for a business's future prospects. They could be a lot wose off without it.

The problem I have here is where that Subsidy came from - it didn't magic out of thin air, everything has a cost.

And when lockdown started ... the majority thought is was a big joke. Nothing to worry about ... I'm fine. So we "Stretch" a few of the rules ... what harm can it do. Those running the isolation centers knew the rules. They felt important enough to grant exemptions outside of their (KNOWN) rules (for various humanitarian reasons) yet no mention of ANY retribution for THEIR rule breaking going their way. And ... if resignation is asked of those at the top ... the hammer will (should ?? [ok ... it used too]) fall harder on those at the bottom (Has it/will it .. ???). And ... could/will there be more deaths because of this ??

If this was the sole and only incident in the last 3 years where a lower level of government had majorly cocked up, I might be inclined to cut some them some slack, but as previously mentioned, it isn't and the reason for it IMO is 100% down to the Leadership.

Consequences ... perhaps. But ... it might not show in the death statistics to date. OR later. While we are alive ... there must also be hope for our own future. The Stock market crashes and devaluations in our dollar can/has caused issues in our economy in the past ... business will continue (OK ... some wont) but the ones with a sound business plan, practice and purpose will survive. How many of those that didn't survive ... wouldn't have for much longer anyway .. ?? More of them still to go under ... probably.

And what is the cost of a stock market crash and devaluation? As above - the last one in the US cost 250,000 lives to Cancer alone - you might say "How many of those that didn't survive ... wouldn't have for much longer anyway .. ??" - but it is a Cost none-the-less.

THEY weren't the ones SPREADING the virus. Just the one's most likely to DIE. I suggest you research which group GAVE those that actually died from the virus in the first place. Even WITH all the rules in place ... Those are the very one's that you want to "get on with their lives" too.
Far to many thought Lockdown stage 4 was a joke. It impeded on their freedoms (apparently) ... As if ... that was not the actual basic purpose of the lockdown.

And initial Police response to rule breakers was in the wet infringement notice ... slapped in/on the hand ... didn't help (or change) public conception of what the pandemic controls were for.

Exactly - protect those who are most likely to die from it, allowing those who aren't likely to die from it to get on with their lives.

As for the Group - that would be people who came in from overseas infected and were given a leaflet at the border instead of being tested and kept in Isolation.

[Katman]

The problem I have here is where that Subsidy came from - it didn't magic out of thin air, everything has a cost.

Would you prefer that businesses had been locked down for 5 weeks without any subsidy?

[TheDemonLord]

Would you prefer that businesses had been locked down for 5 weeks without any subsidy?

I'd have preferred that those able to transact online were able to do so during that 5 weeks, significantly lessening the amount of subsidy required.

[Bonez]

I'd have preferred that those able to transact online were able to do so during that 5 weeks, significantly lessening the amount of subsidy required.

But you weren't in charge....It's gone and over with. No use crying over it.

[Katman]

I'd have preferred that those able to transact online were able to do so during that 5 weeks, significantly lessening the amount of subsidy required.

Well some clearly were.

My wife got a case of wine delivered during it.