@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...

As seen at: https://www.facebook.com/SteveTheMaoriDaniel

@Sneakdefreak must still be scarred from the 2019 season.

Hopefully there's some cricket on at the same time as this game...

@mn5 said in Royal drama:

@donsteppa said in Royal drama:

@nostrildamus said in Royal drama:

They were worried the boy would have dark skin? Not worried he might turn out to be a ginger?
Priorities, people!

This has probably been around for ages, but I've seen it in a lot of Facebook comments in the last 24 hours. #TSFgoesfullDaysofOurLives

That’s an oldie but a goody. I shared it on FB years ago and got some hilarious grief from a real pro royalist who claimed there is rangas down the line somewhere and that’s why Harry has the hair that he does. Nothing to do with old what’s his name. ( apparently )

The quip from the last big tell-all Royal interview about 'three in the marriage' might have been an undercount...

@nostrildamus said in Royal drama:

They were worried the boy would have dark skin? Not worried he might turn out to be a ginger?
Priorities, people!

This has probably been around for ages, but I've seen it in a lot of Facebook comments in the last 24 hours. #TSFgoesfullDaysofOurLives

@sparky said in Royal drama:

Lots of excited Americans saying this is the end of UK Monarchy.

Seriously? I think two-ex Royals having a go at the other Royals from a Californian mansion, will make the other Royals even more popular to most Brits.

The average Brexiter will probably be furious at these two 'Johnny Foreigners'

Andrew is the one more likely to cause complete carnage...

@sparky said in Royal drama:

Harry says his family cut him off financially.

This one is in the "well... what did you expect would happen when trying to have your cake and eat it too, Harry?" category.

Oprah looks like being the only one who will do well out of all this. For the other parties, there'll be varying degrees of car crash on each side of the pond.

Perhaps the less said about the White Ferns batting the better. Though from the parts I saw of the domestic comp, the difference in the quality of bowling between domestic and international is massive.

We were a lot less predictable today with the batting order and bowling choices, it made a big difference.