For now NZ Inc is in the dark,  making moves that are entirely reactionary.

Nat leader Bridges has made several pleas for a massive ramping up of testing for the Wu Flu while the Silly Little Girl pretending to be Dear Leader has concentrated all her energies on re-election strategies and/or her personal captains calls as evidenced by her significant use of  “I”.

As posted yesterday tacking the additional Pike River recovery Top Up along with blatant vote buying for those who do not create any wealth that could sustain revenues coupled with  a pathetic NZ$500 million to provide the additional funds for DHBs to create greater capacity for ICU facilities is pure electioneering.
Whatever happened to the nine years of neglect that the Padre has been rabbiting on about while he has dismantled every measure that Ryall, Joyce and English established to focus health vote effectiveness. Well Padre for now just forget the politics and provide the leadership Vote Health needs to cope with this pandemic.

Nothing was clearer that the Labour appointed Ministers are still firmly stuck in the opposition mindset than the closing remarks from the Pretend Finance Minister as he completed his largely vote harvesting effort yesterday.  Zero attempts to bring all to focus on the task facing NZ Inc, he just couldn’t let the chance go by, he had to try and kick National in the goolies.

All the stats being shouted from the lectern by Media Party Members over infection and death rates possibly connected to the Covid 19 virus are meaningless in the absence of the data that widespread testing will provide.
How many are infected, suffering minimal symptoms and discomfort, then  escape the count because they had a cold for a few days and were never recorded
How many deaths occurred amongst seriously health compromised patients that were never proved to have had their death precipitated by the virus ,  testing might measure.
A chorus of anecdotal evidence mounts that accessing a test has some inane hurdles when eventually the truth will out and it just might be that person to person is already happening, in the absence of extensive testing who would  know.

Could the billions sent to seat warmers at the UN, the Paris accords, and the NZ taxes being pissed onto walls in virtue signalling and re-election moves be better spent. While absolutely no funding for employers and the self employed who will be in the advance of the recovery when the virus abates, is voted.