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    Back in this together

    Aug 29, 2021 3 minutes
    by Marc Wilson

    According to endlockdowns.org, “Surveys around the world have found that lockdowns decrease average quality of life in the order of 20-40%.” Predictably, conspiracy theorist and former Public Party leader Billy Te Kahika was arrested outside TVNZ in Auckland on the first day of the first nationwide Level 4 lockdown since last year. About the same time, Stuff’s John Hartevelt was opening a new toaster, only to find a message claiming that Covid vaccines are dangerous and nasal swabs don’t work.

    The Prime Minister, however, has. Yes, we slipped pretty quickly and uncomplainingly back into that Level 4 routine, didn’t we? Of course, we have the huge advantage of being able to look back at what transpired between the first lockdown and this one.

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