Covid-19, the economic pain to come

Red Sky in the morning

As a small business we’re trying to navigate our way through the Covid-19 shut-down.  Being an essential service (Information Technology) we’re trading under extremely limited circumstances.  We may survive, but it’s impossible to do any forecasting right now and I have no confidence in the government.

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I’m questioning this so-called pandemic and the government’s actions, or inactions.

On the 25th March, NZ went to level 4 lock down.  We only had two days to prepare for it.

Was this whole thing necessary?  Does it fit the definition of a pandemic?  How is it different from a Sars outbreak?

“How bad is this?  How evil is this one?” asks Duncan Garner, TV news presenter for Newshub.

“It’s not the most evil that we’ve had. Sars and Mers coronaviruses were more severe. They killed, were set up to kill a lot more people …” replied Doctor Petousis-Harris.

Doctor Helen Petousis-Harris…

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