General Discussion
Doing what you are advised to do is only possible if you can figure out what the advice is that is being given. It's taken almost a week for a fair chunk of the country to figure out what bamboozling Boris was going on about last Sunday. Here is one analysis. "people don’t want to be told that they should take a greater risk of getting ill in order to keep the economy going ...
Being a whinging git is easy! What are you doing to help? That could just be doing what you're advised to do right through to volunteering. When we come out of this I want to be proud of what I did. I don't expect the Govt to implant common sense into me - I hope I have enough of that to get by. Do you really expect that Boris (and his scientific advisors) is going to tell you, ...
@leatash You don't have to be a non tory to dislike Boris the Minion, as I know of people who were staunch tories and cannot stand him. (Minions. :- They mostly speak incomprehensible gibberish .)
Is that a non verbal comment on the state of the blithering buffoon's hair?
Well, for starters, someone who can communicate without all the bluster and blather. Of the present cabinet, I'd say Rishi Sunak.
Yes Llynne we get you are not a tory and dislike Boris but i would like you to tell me who would do a better job.
and then of course another difference between the UK and NZ is in the quality of the leadership. We have bumbling, blustering, Boris. "One critical success factor that is, unfortunately, harder to guarantee is high-quality political leadership. The brilliant, decisive and humane leadership of Ardern was instrumental in New Zealand’s rapid change in direction with its response to Covid-19 ...
For once I have to agree with leatash - NZ is over 1000 miles from Oz so it was easy to shut the border. We have a land border with another country.
New Zealand locked down early and locked down hard. Plus closed borders. People quarantined. Uk locked down late. Was it a hard lock down? For some no doubt. We were still having planes flying in from heavily infected areas and quarantining (such as it was) stopped weeks back.