But As for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's Apparent Sense of Entitlement Vis-a-Vis Our Parliamentary Speaker's Preferential Treatment in the Parliamentary Sweepstakes (As to MPs' MIQ-Free Travel)...& In Her Rather Sheltered, Even Naive Response to Protesters, Demonstrators, Hecklers, Stirrers & Assorted Agitators As She's Openly Demonstrated Over Recent Weeks - When Unavoidably & Uncomfortably 'Up Close & Personal' With the Like...

Like/enjoy it she may well - and perfectly understandably - not...

But, hey, it's called freedom of speech and expression, a thing apparently increasingly in contention in Western society in general, but here in particular as her Government - using the cover of the March 15th massacre (by an unhinged Aussie gunman), and despite strong protests by the Christchurch Muslims  whose relatives were killed - proceeds apace with (preparing) generally and roundly criticized and condemned 'hate speech' legislation...

Yep, the woke brigade and cancel culturalists alongside the politically correct wouldn't even know much less respect the sacrifice/s previous generations made - at the cost of their very lives - to secure such freedoms for succeeding generations...

But we better care...if we know what's good for us...for after they've done with the easy stuff, what's the chances even probability they're comin' for us next, or someone near and dear to you...  

Yes, Covid-19 is VERY, Is In Fact ALL TOO REAL, And Moreover Is Comin' to a Place/Residence Right Near/Nextdoor to You - and Yours - Anytime Soon (If Not Sooner)...But Let's Beware of Making It (& All Things Covid/Coronavirus) the Bee-All & End-All of All Things Healthwise...

And of thereby condoning, even promulgating a mindless, moronic, brain-dead conformity to the state more reminiscent of Big Brother's never-ending surveillance and browbeating and emotional/ psychological intimidation (and ultimately physical torture) of Winston Smith et al...

Of labelling, pigeonholing, ostracizing, scapegoating, and eventually condemning via some latter-day tinpot judge, jury and executioner regime whosoever happens - for perfectly genuine and heartfelt reasons of their own - to resist and oppose 'joining the club'...

...having elevated 'the Covid' to the status of a wholly untouchable sacred cow...

It's BS, folks, truly. 'Coz though in our 'new normal' 'flu deaths and the like may well be plummeting - an unexpected and welcome side-effect of the stringent measures being adopted globally (and here in NZ) to combat the coronavirus...

...folks with life-threatening cancer are evidently not getting the urgent attention and treatment they so desperately seek, demand and require, and meanwhile mental health casualties and even fatalities are spiralling out of control, even as it were 'going through the roof', conveniently out-of-sight and out-of-mind to those so adroitly governing the global response to covid...

She May Well Have Given Thoughtful & Considered Reflection to Her Intemperate Outburst at the Recent Labour Party Conference, & Duly Apologized to Understandably Offended Conservative Party MPs...-and Admittedly My Impression (from Newstalk ZB's UK Correspondent Rod Little's Discussion Thereof a Few Weeks Ago) that Raymer Had Effectively Slurred (By Implication and Insinuation) Voters in the British Midlands and Northern Industrial Heartland Who'd Voted 'Tory' in Droves In General Election 2019 was Mistaken...But Even Her Uncategorical Slur Upon PM Boris Johnson Seems Way over the Top & Utterly Unbecoming of an Heir-Apparent (Given Time) to the United Kingdom's Top Political Role...- and Surely Would Not be Tolerated AN INSTANT in a Male Politician...

You've Really Gotta Give It to Greta...For Calling Out the *"Vain Talkers & Pious Professors" (of Our Present-Day Global Climate EMERGENCY): "GREENWASHING" Is, If Anything, A Satirical Understatement, A Genteel Euphemism For What They Patently Failed - Yet Again - to Achieve At Glasgow...But Hey, They All Feel So Much Better For Letting Off So Much Hot Air (Yet Again): Surely THEY Should Be the Ones Whose Verbal Belching/Verborrhea Ought to Be Limited/Taxed Into Extinction Rather Than That of the Comparatively Innocent Methane-Emitting Bovine...

*As former ACT NZ MP Stephen Franks I believe expressed things (on this or a similar, but not entirely unrelated matter) upon RNZ National's weekday Panel a few days ago...

Postscript:

Or, as fellow Cop26 attendees (Friends of the Earth or Greenpeace) has so aptly put it: "It's twiddling our thumbs and wishing for the best."