How is it better that she was a lapdog? I hear this argument a lot but principled action would have changed perspectives in important ways. The only reason to capitulate is attachment to her lavish paycheque.
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I said her replacement would have been a lapdog. As it was, she was too, and it was not better. We were doomed to have a lapdog, no matter what.
aug 28, 2025, 6:15 pm • 2 0 • view
That’s what I’m saying. She deserves to be condemned.
aug 28, 2025, 6:26 pm • 5 1 • view
Totally - just saying that even.if she would have made a stand, we'd have been in the same situation. Lose-lose.
aug 28, 2025, 6:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Except that she could have said "no, this is wrong" and gotten some attention for it, highlighting the fact that her replacement was a lapdog, which could have been mattered. Complying in advance only helps fascists. The immediate results might have been the same but the CONTEXT would change.
aug 28, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 0 • view
I think I said that?
aug 28, 2025, 10:12 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't think so? The context is *part* of the situation and even if the immediate outcome around NPIs/vaccines were the same the context can impact the *next* thing that happens. So even if you have a lapdog CPHO you have people knowing that others objected rather than 'agreed'.
aug 28, 2025, 10:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Well I did say - "I believe she should have stood her ground." So I'm not sure we're disagreeing...
aug 28, 2025, 10:20 pm • 1 0 • view
That's fair.
aug 28, 2025, 10:24 pm • 2 0 • view
(to wit: have you heard about the CDC walkout today? Prolly wouldn't have happened if not for the "Nope" from the top.)
aug 28, 2025, 10:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Might have brought it into stark clarity earlier. We have a Court of King’s Bench decision saying the CMOH unduly fettered her authority, but came out long after the fact. I’ve made mistakes, but so far never one that a court said involved violating the law (refusing to use authority).
aug 28, 2025, 11:23 pm • 2 0 • view
A rationalisation for keeping her lavish paycheque? I wish all MOHs stood up and refused to toe the line. That would've been something. "We stand for Public Health, not harmful political BS." But I also hoped the world would stand up & refuse to trade with the USR.
aug 28, 2025, 6:16 pm • 6 1 • view
I believe New Zealand was the only country that put public health first. For a while.
aug 28, 2025, 7:04 pm • 3 0 • view
China was pretty restrictive too.
aug 28, 2025, 7:05 pm • 1 0 • view
I hear that. But I don't trust any information coming from China.
aug 28, 2025, 7:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Or from the US of Russia.
aug 28, 2025, 7:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Ardern left & it was taken over by conservatives. Damn. I really like Jacinda.
aug 28, 2025, 7:05 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm sure the strain of fighting the monied class got to her. A handful of billionaires can really throw their weight around.
aug 28, 2025, 7:13 pm • 3 0 • view
She'd just had a baby recently and said she wanted to focus on her family, but yeah, I have no doubt politics & the corporate class can wear people down. Her handling of the Christchurch shooting was great. Woke/empathy is never out of style.
aug 28, 2025, 7:17 pm • 3 0 • view