@Frank said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@No-Quarter said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

So now that I've had time to reflect on this, I'm even more angry at the government.

They took 100% of our rights away for more than a month while they implemented the most draconian lockdown in the world. We all went along with it for the greater good, and we got rid of Covid altogether.

And for what? If the virus spreads again, and based on what we are seeing it seems almost inevitable that it will, what then? We can't go back into lockdown. There was debate about whether the cure was worse than the disease with the first one, if we do it again that will almost certainly be the case.

So what was that lockdown for? What was their long term plan? Close the borders until an unlikely vaccine is created? But then if that was the plan, why are they granting exemptions when it only takes one person to spread it far and wide again?

Or are these politicians so hopelessly out of touch that they think they can just do the lockdown again if need be?

I don't see anything coherent around what our long term plan is for this.

Wonder what Baron is thinking?
Can we let him back on for one day just to read the blistering critique?

He wasn't banned, it was self isolation.

Meanwhile in Brazil.

“The better team” never loses a game 19 - 3.

Worth a try

I think NZ rugby took the wrong lessons out of Henry and winning in 2011 after not being sacked in 2007.

Experience only counts if you’re good enough. The argument that we won in 2011 because of not sacking Henry in 2007 didn’t prove that you must have experience, it just proved that if you’ve got the right coach - keep them.

I’ve never been particularly convinced that Grizz would have won in 95, Hart in 03, or Mitchell in 07 just by being retained. 50/50 on Laurie in 1999 maybe.

Unfortunately the NZRU is conservative enough without learning that lesson incorrectly, and the experience lesson has now landed us with Foster instead of Robertson, Rennie, Cotter, or any of the other names who would also be better.

Today was always going to be the happy/sad day of lockdown for me.

Happy: today is Mum's 80th birthday!
Sad: her rest home is only 1.5km away, but it may as well be on the moon for all the good that is at the moment.

The very very slight silver lining of Alzheimer's is that covid-19 is mostly a background thing on the news to her, and she's not worried about it at all.

Work has been busy in lockdown, which has certainly made the time fly. The downside is that there are people out there in some pretty difficult situations, and where there are answers for them - the answers often aren't happy ones.

I'm an old fashioned git too.

Useful or not as a rule, I suppose it does get kids used to following appearance rules for when they matter later in life. Be it hi-vis vests, or realising that facial tattoo's are fine so long as you don't then expect to work for Emirates, etc etc. I guess I'm also a grumpy old git who gets fed up of all such media stories trying to fuel outrage on relatively trivial matters...

Vaea Fifita: the Akira Ioane that they do pick...

The "How soon is Fozzie going?" thread.

@Siam yep, can't go wrong with guaranteed sport each night. Subconsciously I somehow manage to watch most of every game of each season till about now, but for some reason I haven't watched many of the finals series.

The most Village start to a match possible from Aaron Finch - a huge wild swing has him bowled by Glen Maxwell on the first ball of the match.

It is now getting to that timeless stage of the Big Bash where the games are still on at the same time every night, the table feels meaningless, and the competition seems like it will end at Easter...

Funny listening to the Fox commentators getting frustrated over the last half hour that the three Indian #11's won't only swing wildly at the ball and immediately get out just to suit Australia's needs...

Agarwal second ball after lunch. These Indian batsmen have the concentration span of an IPL player.

In all seriousness, too many poor shots from players who generally should know better...

In the short time it takes to unlock the Covid app and scan the code, about three people have usually ploughed straight past me (occasionally nearly through me for being in the way). Especially in the supermarkets.

Well, Vihari still hasn’t got past 20-odd in the series, but it’s one of the best 20-odd scores he’ll ever bat.

Let's hope not...

Vihari has done little with the bat all series, and now pulls a hammy running a quick single...