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January 30, 2022 3:00pm by David Farrar

Leo says it

Leo Molloy’s video to Jacinda has gone viral with over 1,300 shares.

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PaulL

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Entertaining. Some kernels of truth even. But also enough crazy that people on the left can safely ignore it on the basis that he’s crazy.
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January 30, 2022 3:08pm
- R
  
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  He lost me when he said everyone in Auckland is going to get Covid in the next month or so. He’s bought into the scare-mongering.
  
  COVID has been with us for 2 years. Despite that, some 5 million NZers haven’t caught it. A reasonable person would conclude that it’s not so easy to catch. 🙂 Hence these draconian rules are simply not necessary.
  
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  January 30, 2022 3:26pm
  - band4u
    
    A reasonable person who has read anything about Omicron from S Africa , England and Europe knows that almost everyone may well catch it but they will be not much more sick than if they had a cold about. The danger to the country will be the number being compelled to isolate as close contacts. 15 Omicron infections at 1 stage and almost 2000 isolated.!
    
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    January 30, 2022 4:03pm
    - Surely Knott
      
      I doubt everyone will get a serious version of it. The UK estimates that as of end of Dec (pre-omicron) only 40% of the population had ever had covid. Omicron is much more infectious. So in the last two months that would have increased a bit. But it’s already changed into Omicron B. Even more infectious and less pathogenic than Omicron A. So some will get Omicron. And some will get covid this winter which is increasingly looking like a 3 day cold. So get rid of the stupid mandates on the unvaccinated because it’s the vaccinated that are catching Omicron.
      
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      January 30, 2022 5:35pm
      - Mr_Blobby
        
        Leo Molloy is just an opinionated clown. He is acting in his own self interest.
        
        That said
        
        ” (pre-omicron) only 40% of the population had ever had covid”
        
        We will not know, the Antibody test that has been available from the beginning is banned, Illegal to import, manufacture, sell etc
        
        Why is that???????????
        
        My 8 year old niece in the UK does a saliva test, herself, every morning before she goes to School. I am not allowed to get one except prior to travelling, even then it is from a pharmacy worker in full protective gear, minutes before they were able to sell me Panadol face to face.
        
        Why is that???????????
        
        Even then it is not to be used for screening for covid, only to test to see if someone can come back to work.
        
        Why is that???????????
        
        Now to be fair, I am not “vaccinated” why as the “Vaccine” if you can even call it a “vaccine” obviously does not work as advertised. The evidence is right there in front of your face, 1 dose, a 2nd dose, now a 3rd dose was 6 then 5 now 4 Months later, and still it is carried in by the vaccinated. Really are you serious. Try not to laugh.
        
        Vaccine we have a vaccine (Laugh out loud now). Vaccine we have a vaccine, it doesn’t work (Laugh out loud now). We told them that if they take the vaccine we would let them be free again. They believed us. (Laugh out loud now).
        
        The adverse reactions to the vaccine are very real, from mild to serious, I do not know anybody that has had covid, but I know many who have had a reaction to the vaccine, some very serious and 1 suspected death.
        
        Lets have a closer look at what has worked around the World, like say Sweden, who learned to live with covid and life went on, but we do not hear anything in our media about that.
        
        Why is that???????????
        
        Jacinda was very happy to announce that we were going down the apartheid, segregation path creating a 2nd class Citizen with restrictions.
        
        Why because the vaccinated only wanted to associate with other vaccinated, strange my family still associate with me. Well not all. Unvaccinated are Infectious, was the word, and people believe that nonsense.
        
        Long after covid is just a stain in the history books. I will never ever forget the people who supported this immoral abhorrent apartheid.
        
        I will test myself. I certainly wont be lining up for a test.
        
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        January 31, 2022 12:02pm
  - cmm
    
    The transmission rate has gone up a lot with Omicron. It’s not 2020 SARS-CoV-2 any more.
    
    The draconian rules are no longer warranted because the virus is out of control and can’t be “stamped out”.
    
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    January 30, 2022 4:26pm
    - artemisia
      
      Current covid phase official slogan is in fact ‘Stamp it Out’. Really.
      
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      January 30, 2022 5:31pm
    - Mr_Blobby
      
      So we wasted hundreds of Billions of dollars, an economic and social crisis of epic proportions to what, delay, the inevitable.
      
      Somebody is taking the piss right.
      
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      January 31, 2022 12:10pm
    - Fentex
      
      I suspect no one thinks it can be stamped out, but that the governments thinking is (regardless of what is said) that they want to try and slow it’s spread in the community to avoid suddenly big numbers and consequences – I think they want to ‘ease into’ living with it and that they’re willing to pay quite a lot hoping for that to be a more, rather than less, gentle experience.
      
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      January 31, 2022 4:42pm
  - Jim
    
    Leo is bang on point and clearly doesn’t get his data from ‘the sole source of science’ our ever benevolent government. To bring you up to speed, international medical data demonstrates Omicron is going through (infecting) an entire population in approximately 30-60 days. Dr John Campbell explains it here in his almost daily YouTube update, and incidentally he always cites medical data used in his analysis.
    Based on Leo’s common sense and data driven business like approach I would vote for his as PM let alone MoA.
    
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    January 30, 2022 6:16pm
    - Jim
      
      Dr Campbell’s link
      https://youtu.be/4RSahdFuemE
      
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      January 30, 2022 7:23pm
  - Frederick
    
    I think it’s using dramatic licence or exaggeration to make his point. You don’t have to take everything literally – even when he said it, it was clear he was being flippant.
    
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    January 30, 2022 6:36pm
    - Spoff
      
      Nope. Leo is living in the real World.
      
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      January 30, 2022 8:55pm
  - waikatosinger
    
    It isn’t scare mongering. Pretty much everyone really is going to get it over the next month – two months at the outside.
    
    And that isn’t a bad thing. Because most everyone is just going to get it and get over it. And then it will all be over and we get to survey the wreckage that Labour’s misguided response has made of our economy and our lives.
    
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    January 30, 2022 8:53pm
  - EssenX
    
    What rock do you live under? Even before Omicron, prior to the Delta outbreak in NZ, the smart people were already saying that post-Delta everyone in NZ would catch COVID in the next year or two.
    
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    January 30, 2022 9:35pm
- Cinematic
  
  Didn’t see any crazy. Plenty of dry wit.
  
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  January 30, 2022 3:39pm
- Fight4NZ
  
  He has an axe to grind but by and large sticks to the point and to the facts of today’s situation from what I heard.
  He also has a reasonably credible track record, eg
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/11/auckland-businessman-leo-molloy-slams-anti-vaxxers-in-strongly-worded-column-explains-why-vaccination-is-right.html
  As important as getting Government to better adjust to the Omicron environment, is to turn the volume down on Michael Baker as mentioned, as he is proving to operate at one speed only. This happened to fit the early situation, with many unknowns, but has now passed the best-before date.
  
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  January 31, 2022 8:34am
  - Mr_Blobby
    
    Leo Malloy is the “Village Idiot”.
    
    Look around the “vaccine” does not work, how do we know this.
    
    It has been carried into the Country by the fully vaccinated.
    
    It is spreading through the vaccinated community.
    
    It is easier to con a clown like Leo Molloy than convince them that they have been a victim of a con.
    
    I won’t be dyeing anytime soon from covid, I have seen my death there is a long list of things that will eventually kill me and it is not covid.
    
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    January 31, 2022 12:25pm
stewmar

I just hope that Jaxxie sees it
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January 30, 2022 3:09pm
Fishing in the dark

The shear truth and these clowns still bury their into the sand until the entire country is ruined.
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January 30, 2022 3:10pm
- band4u
  
  That so the Global reset will have to be implemented. Remember,” We will all own nothing and be Happy” according to the World economic Forum. LOL our PM is a globalist!
  
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  January 30, 2022 4:05pm
Biscuit

And all delivered without Jacinda-style speeeh notes or cue cards.

Or face-enhancing podium-style uplighting…
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January 30, 2022 3:12pm
- NoCash
  
  Or refuting any proposition even once ?
  
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  January 30, 2022 5:13pm
BananaLlama

I hope the government has directed our Security Services to look into some of these left wing extremists using hate speech in the comment section of this video. Some very unhinged people responding to his criticism that wont take Labour losing the election well.
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January 30, 2022 3:12pm
smttc

Bloody funny. But she won’t watch it.
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January 30, 2022 3:13pm
- Mr_Blobby
  
  Regardless, would she understand it.
  
  What is GDP again?
  
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  January 31, 2022 12:28pm
kevn

Simple as that folks…
Rooted NZ.
Done.
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January 30, 2022 3:25pm
CAKE FACE1

Poor old Cindy. The worm is turning.

By mid winter, when the recession has kicked in, and many people have died, I hope and expect that support for this government will be in free fall.

Cindy is useless.
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January 30, 2022 3:27pm
- Mobile Michael
  
  Her net approval (number approving less number disapproving) is getting close to zero, according to 1News polling. People getting sick of all style, no substance.
  
  A sure sign that it’s over, it’s an unarrestable slide from here.
  
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  January 30, 2022 7:31pm
  - EssenX
    
    Luxon is running this variants of this theme about “ all style, no substance” too. I think focus groups must be showing that peoples patience is wearing thin quickly now. I doubt it’s long before Luxon or Seymour lands a “show us the money” KO punch.
    
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    January 30, 2022 9:38pm
Rusty

Leo Molloy makes a lot of sense in this video.

Its obvious Jacinda and her mates are making up the rules on the spot with no rational or logical thought behind them as Leo points out.

In fact, if you dig a bit deeper into these rules — they are quite dark.

If you get symptoms of covid you and your contacts suffer financially from loss or reduced income from time off work and if you don’t get your symptoms checked through a covid test and you are found out later to have covid you can get heavy fines.

This is dark thinking from our PM.

As for Ashley Bloomfield — as a medical doctor who has taken that famous doctors oaf to do all medically to help the sick without political interference —sad to say he is now a stooge for Jacinda and the govts agenda to politically and socially change the whole fabric of NZ society.
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January 30, 2022 3:31pm
- Gertie
  
  Please explain the bit where you are in big bother if you have covid and dont fess up.
  
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  January 30, 2022 4:22pm
altiora

Well 20% of the staff at my firm have left for overseas, there’s more going to announce their resignations shortly and I will leave soon too. How it will stay afloat with the talent leaving, is anyone’s guess.

I feel sorry for those who remain in New Zealand — the consequences of this mismanagement will be grim.

Already I know working families don’t know how they can afford their groceries due to inflation.

Part of me feels sorry for them, but the other part feels that this is New Zealander’s comeuppance for thinking that money just magically appears in the bank accounts and never asking the politicians “how are we paying for this?”.

Within the next 12 months, I predict Ardern to be despised like no other politician in living memory.
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January 30, 2022 3:41pm
- Gertie
  
  Totally agree. There is change coming. NZ is rooted. We have let it happen. As a farmer I cant go to a sale to buy stock. So why should I bother worrying about that. Might as well plant trees, apparently I will get paid better to plant my farm in trees and let them grow then rot. Marvellous. No steak for the masses any more.
  
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  January 30, 2022 4:29pm
  - Christopher Thomson
    
    The dim-witted citizens can’t see the correlation between goverment idealogical lunacy and the effect on everyday life.
    
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    January 30, 2022 4:58pm
  - Mr_Blobby
    
    ” better to plant my farm in trees and let them grow then rot.”
    
    Someone put a lot of hard work in clearing that land, to make it productive.
    
    Like a modern day scorched earth policy.
    
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    January 31, 2022 12:34pm
- Barbara
  
  Government is hell bent on eliminating tourism on the back of the virus, and replacing farming with monoculture pine, because of the dreaded CO2. No matter that all these trees we’re subsidising are going to be logged at the same time as China’s huge new forests – that’s going to go well for us … And National, who consistently fail to question either of these policies, have the cheek to bleat about rising interest rates. What on earth do they expect when the economy is being sabotaged with their acquiesence?
  
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  January 30, 2022 5:57pm
- Frederick
  
  Yep. I think history will treat her much like Muldoon. Adored in his pomp, now derided as a egomaniac who nearly destroyed the country. However I think Muldoon did care for the country, just his recipe wasn’t working – Ardern I don’t think cares one jot.
  
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  January 30, 2022 7:31pm
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Bro – there are millions of Kiwis itching to return to NZ to be ruled by Queen Jacinda. So she is not going to be bothered that you are leaving. With support from 40% die hard supporters (which includes about 12% National traitors and 9% stinking hippies who support Greens, Cindy will still be the Queen in 2023.
  
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  January 30, 2022 8:50pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  she’s already there in the despised category.
  
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  February 1, 2022 2:00pm
Captain Mainwaring

Leo not only says it, he nails it.
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January 30, 2022 3:44pm
Lee C

It is refreshing to see pragmatism applied here. Interesting also how all seem so wedded to the covid mythology. Ardern and her PR people have so captured the imagination that everyone who wishes to wield any influence have to ‘bend teh knee’ in some regard or other.

And many are still starry-eyed, or terrified, and unwilling to apply their frontal cortexes to this issue.

But the real storm will be when people realise it was a fabricated narrative and they have been needlessly sacrificed on a bonfire of vanities.

Then they will be forced to come to the conclusion they have been needlessy terrorised.

And that Ardern is a benign Terrorist.
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January 30, 2022 3:47pm
jp_1983

No authorization statement at the end of his video.
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January 30, 2022 3:56pm
- kevn
  
  @jp… Report him.
  
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  January 30, 2022 4:47pm
Lee C

NSW Police served with summons for enforcing mandates:

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=459627168986879
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January 30, 2022 4:05pm
Maggy Wassilieff

I’d be very interested in discovering the story behind
the RATs that haven’t been able to get into NZ
(around 4.41 -4.50).
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January 30, 2022 4:06pm
- cmm
  
  The thousands that were confiscated at the border?
  
  Probably destroyed along with other contraband. Government waste at is best.
  
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  January 30, 2022 4:27pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    No,
    
    I think there is a back story about who got the MofH contract to first bring them in/or investigate them .
    
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/455497/poor-planning-conflicts-of-interest-in-saliva-testing-programme-auditor-general
    
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    January 30, 2022 5:12pm
- Anthony Coates
  
  I thought he might be talking about this… from the very start of the “pandemic”. I heard it a lot on UK media that were anti-establishment, about how New Zealand banned the import of self tests. Standard podium of truth stuff.
  https://www.health.govt.nz/news-media/media-releases/covid-19-point-care-test-kits
  
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  January 31, 2022 12:02am
tf78

Looks like we’ve found our new Mayor then.
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January 30, 2022 4:08pm
- greybeard
  
  Absolutely.
  I was beginning to think that such normal people no longer existed in this commie shithouse.
  
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  January 30, 2022 4:59pm
Albert_Ross

Does 1300 shares really count as “viral”?
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January 30, 2022 4:37pm
- kevn
  
  @Al…. Not bad for an hour or so. Come back later and see.
  
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  January 30, 2022 4:48pm
Geoff1

Leo Molloy fancies himself as an expert in matters virological, epidemiological, and pretty much everything else, especially if it is Covid-related, and was an early adopter of vax passports for entry to his premises. Even went to the extreme of identifying the vaxxed/unvaxxed in his employ with different coloured T shirts. The unclean were to have no interface with customers and could do some sort of outside work. Still kept them employed I suppose. So Molloy bought into the whole narrative, officiously implemented government’s divisive two tier system and now not happy with Ardern’s “draconian rules” that are “just not going to work”. Leo is such a know-all, how did he not see this coming?
Crybaby Leo Molloy has been the most strident advocate of jab mandates and vax passports. The fact that he is now hurting with other pro-jab/pro-vaxpass hospitality owners now finding a lack of customers. You reap what you sow.
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January 30, 2022 5:01pm
- Man Among the Ruins
  
  “Molloy bought into the whole narrative, officiously implemented government’s divisive two tier system and now not happy with Ardern’s “draconian rules” that are “just not going to work”. Leo is such a know-all, how did he not see this coming? Crybaby Leo Molloy has been the most strident advocate of jab mandates and vax passports. The fact that he is now hurting with other pro-jab/pro-vaxpass hospitality owners now finding a lack of customers. You reap what you sow.”
  
  Well said. There will likely be many other such Road to Damascus conversions in the coming weeks and months, but sympathy for the many enthusiastic advocates of medical apartheid will be in very short supply.
  
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  January 30, 2022 6:09pm
- RockyJ
  
  When you are a state leader you consult experts but don’t rely on them. You have to be able to articulate what your position is and why. It has to be in your own words. Otherwise you just leave the big ambiguous decisions to the experts.
  Doing that is a disaster. Leo is spot on in this regard. Impressive.
  As George Clemenceau (who knew a lot about making difficult decisions) said; “war is too important to leave to the generals”.
  
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  January 30, 2022 6:25pm
- Scooter
  
  He was veterinarian so I guess he might know more than the average person.
  
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  January 30, 2022 7:25pm
- tf78
  
  Matr – Some learn by their mistakes, others repeat them.
  
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  January 30, 2022 7:46pm
- Jim
  
  It’s a shame Leo supported discriminatory vaccine mandates as the real science is fraying at the edges, not my words, that of the GB News presenter
  https://youtu.be/-xhRoL5vP40
  
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  January 31, 2022 5:39am
- ISeeRed
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/controversial-businessman-leo-molloy-wants-to-segregate-vaccinated-and-non-vaccinated-staff/7SB5KHFGFV4LZMMVVUYDWZ2M5U/
  
  “I have no tolerance for anti-vaxxers who watch rubbish on YouTube and say your ‘balls will glow in the dark or you’ll grow an extra mammary in your forehead,’ that’s bull****.”
  
  Unimpressed.
  
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  January 31, 2022 10:16am
Barbara

Talks a lot of sense here. But isn’t he the Leo Molloy who said that “anti-vaxxers” were uneducated in scientific matters, thus claiming to know more medical science than the thousands of scientists and high-level medical experts who do not see the vaccine as indicated safe or effective? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTlC0PNnSA4
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January 30, 2022 5:06pm
- Man Among the Ruins
  
  Interesting. This puts his latest self-serving effort in a different light, doesn’t it? Molloy sits down here with the MSM and colludes with them to help propagate the notion of vaccination and vaccine passports being necessary, and that segregation of society is a good thing (obviously with the underlying motivation of getting the numbers of vaxxed up, regardless of the lack of justification, just so he can reopen his business sooner), and now has a moan about how much it will cost him due to the isolation requirements. I couldn’t care less if his of any other business goes belly up given his or their enthusiasm for vaccination apartheid.
  
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  January 30, 2022 6:05pm
  - marcw
    
    I must have woken up in an alternative NZ – since when have Facebook posts been accepted as “the MSM”?
    
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    January 30, 2022 6:48pm
    - Man Among the Ruins
      
      I don’t think that you’ve woken up at all: see the link to the NZ Herald’s YouTube channel for the earlier Molloy interview, which Barbara posted above and to which I refer.
      
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      January 30, 2022 9:22pm
      - Man Among the Ruins
        
        I should add that, having corrected you as to the relevant reference, platforms still don’t get much more mainstream and establishment than Facebook, so really, being a media outlet, Facebook is effectively an element of the MSM.
        
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        January 30, 2022 9:31pm
    - Barbara
      
      If the Herald doesn’t count for MSM in New Zealand, what does?
      The Youtube description: “NZ Herald investigative reporter Carolyne Meng-Yee sat down with Auckland businessman and HeadQuarters bar owner Leo Molloy as he revealed his message for anti-vaxxers and plans to segregate vaccinated and non-vaccinated staff when the venue reopens in alert level 2.”
      
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      January 31, 2022 6:31am
- Gertie
  
  Well hasnt the worm turned. With all I have dug up and read I thought it might. I thought they would all turn on each other and start accusing each other for the mess they were in. Yet for months it seemed like we were on the rough end of a losing battle. I am feeling like Jon Snow in the Battle of the Bastards as he arises from the pile of bodies.
  There is much left to fight but us unjabbed have had a win. When they are scapping amongst themselves they might leave us alone.
  Leo you believed in the jab. Threw the unjabbed to the wolves, now its not working and you are tearing your hair out. Good blardy job.
  
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  January 30, 2022 9:01pm
greenjacket

I once had a really good boss, who took the identical tone when he was talking to a particularly thick worker or contractor. Blokes like Leo Malloy are the backbone of New Zealand – little wonder they have no place in “Aotearoa”.
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January 30, 2022 5:10pm
Bridgenag

Really good article in The Daily Telegraph

WHAT CAME UNSTUCK IN NEW ZEALAND? LESSONS FOR THE WORLD

[Please don’t resort to capitals to make your points. mod.]
[P.S. This person has no credentials to make the claims he does, and links to his post will most likely be binned by moderators here. mod.]
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January 30, 2022 6:16pm
- Doc
  
  Well, that mod certainly piqued my interest! Now I’m going to have to go and look it up ?
  
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  January 30, 2022 7:27pm
  - bythesea
    
    me too!
    The article seems to be the Guy Hatchard one.
    
    I had a read and it seems entirely reasonable to discuss vaccine injuries and adverse events. They have been discussed many times on Kiwiblog.
    
    Talking about the potential for group think to quash or hide unpleasant reality for a social good is hardly a new thing, blimey.
    
    With the top blown off vaccination, boosters et al by Omicron, this story might get some legs if there are some whistleblowers out there
    
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    January 30, 2022 8:34pm
  - Jim
    
    The Daily Telegraph article is actually entitled “Saint Jacinda has made controlling covid a myopic moral mission, with no end in sight”
    It’s a fair reflection of our domestic situation, and I can’t see why it was deleted by the moderator.
    
    Just Google the title and it will come up, but it’s paywalled (you can get a free trial)
    
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    January 31, 2022 6:08am
- Barbara
  
  Back in August it was widely reported in the media that ACC were being overwhelmed due to “restructuring”. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/448784/overwhelmed-acc-staff-dropping-like-flies-after-changes
  
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  January 31, 2022 6:37am
fredonas

As was predicted late last year, the Min. of Health is already struggling to cope with processing contact tracing data for the small number of covid cases that are in public now. If the number of cases grow to levels predicted by statistical models, they’ll have no show of keeping up.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300503809/without-a-trace-contact-tracers-miss-two-omicron-cases-system-gaps-highlighted
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January 30, 2022 7:07pm
Frederick

[Once is enough – mod.]
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January 30, 2022 7:31pm
Frederick

Amongst the many salient points Leo made, one resonated very strongly with me.
I was up in Auckland last weekend and walking down Queen Street I was staggered how it had gone backwards. So many empty shop spaces, so many people who were clearly mentally unwell, so many businesses who looked like they were on their last legs.
That’s Leos point – the CBD has been destroyed. I wonder if Jacinda ever visits the CBD and realises that the never ending lockdowns are destroying a city. Or would she be indifferent – after all its only businesses and they are all stinking rich!!
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January 30, 2022 7:41pm
- RightFirstTime
  
  You were bloody brave to be walking down Queen St. – even in the middle of the day.
  
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  January 30, 2022 10:32pm
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  The Auckland CBD was well on the way to being destroyed long before covid, thanks to two completely useless mayors in a row, pants-down Brown and Goff the goof
  
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  January 30, 2022 10:34pm
Schmegegge

“gone viral with over 1,300 shares”

Thirteen hundred

Stop the press!
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January 30, 2022 7:51pm
Red

One minor correction to Leo’s take on business.
He says J doesn’t like biz? – I think they’re terrified of business because pragmatic thinking and planning shows up their cabinet as totally bereft of talent.
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January 31, 2022 5:47am
lazza

Well said Leo. We sympathise with your predicament, clearly Jacinda “doesn’t”.

HEADLINE of the year … “The train wreck that is Government policy-making …”

Yeosthese boofheads have no idea.
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January 31, 2022 6:03am
andrewo

I’m running Microsoft Edge as my browser and
“This page has been blocked by Microsoft Edge”

This is happening quite often now, even on the some quite innocuous videos. (I also have Brave so they’re not achieving anything)
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January 31, 2022 6:58am
andrewo

I think Leo is understating the case: If everyone who gets it has to isolate for “a minimum of 14 days” according to the government, and with Omicron being so transmissible , it’s not hard to see that massive absenteeism will result in the net couple of months. Not just the hospitality industry. Entire organizations may be shut down and the result will be major disruption.
I anticipate they’ll walk back those rules once its apparent what’s happening.
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January 31, 2022 7:06am
Rich Prick

I’m currently at a four star hotel. The “red light” rules are insane. No cooked breakfast, just toast that would have take a minute for me to make has taken over 30 minutes because I must remain seated while someone does it for me. Mask on to stand, off when seated, on again to leave. If the hospitality industry was suffering already, this insanity will end it all for many. Cindy is welcome to her clown world, just leave me out of it.
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January 31, 2022 8:06am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

If Leo Malloy has upset the rabid lefties, he is doing something right
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January 31, 2022 8:20am
backster

I remember when Leo was a top jockey riding out of the Harry Long stable at Te Rapa. He knew the way to the winning post then so I hope he does just as well in the Auckland Mayoralty.
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