Posted on Facebook and re-posted by request:
The NZ media really hate anyone being successful.
Ardern has been at the coalface fighting for me for two years.
And she’s been doing it for you too.
Use any metric you like and she’s been successful.
She’s a university graduate and, for the 4th year running, she’s acknowledged as the world’s most effective leader.
Except here, in Aotearoa New Zealand, where the tall poppy syndrome is alive, well, rampant and flourishing, here she’s not.
If you believe our mainstream media, here she’s just some chit of a girl with no experience of the real world who’s only ever worked in a fish and chip shop, a Communist who’s sold us down the river to the CCP, who’s squirrelled away millions of dollars from the Chinese and who’s secretly driving us towards Agenda 2030, and Armageddon, before she flits off to a high-powered job at the UN. None of this is true, of course. None of it. What is true is the need our NZ media has to break our heroes and to build up others. before it turns on them and breaks them too. Ardern seems indestructible. She’s not. She’s human. I see no graciousness towards her yet I’m still alive and so are you. She’s had a big role to play in that.
Statistically, in other countries with the same population as ours, I wouldn’t be. Look at these countries in terms of deaths:
Croatia – 11,516
Ireland – 5,788
Panama – 7,382
Costa Rica – 7,328
Kuwait – 2,466
Moldova – 9,315
Palestine – 4,562
Oman – 4,113
Slovakia – 15,236
New Zealand – 44
We’re gold standard but all we ever hear is how bad it’s been, how little Susie in London wants to come home but can’t because of the evil Ardern. We never hear from the 100,000 who have. I call it ‘anomaly journalism’ but, in fact, it’s just plain lazy.
From time to time we should thank Ardern, Robertson, Hipkins and Bloomfield for working so hard and so successfully for all of us. Not just some of us, but all of us. Mostly, though, we should simply thank Ardern. The idea that we’re a Team of Five Million shouldn’t just be dismissed as glib PR speak. It’s a profound way of seeing our way through this crisis together. Bloomfield tells us we’re barely half way through. I believe this because, he is, after all, the expert. With a significant journey yet to complete, I’d like to think I’m not alone, that you’re not alone, that we’re all in this together. This isn’t about partisan politics, it’s much bigger than that. And we’re much better than that. Aren’t we? We are, aren’t we? We’re so much better than that.
(These figures are from Worldometer and accurate as at 3am Saturday morning 11 December 2021.)
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