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 How to win an election with media complicity

It's National's job to propose Labour's ideas, to lie about how the three point omicron plan did not exist, to pretend to be health experts who know best, and to know deep down with a smug smile - nobody will hold them to account for it.

Yesterday Sir John's man told the assembled press in Lower Hutt that Labour copy National's ideas - and if you look back at National's retreat in Queenstown back on 31 January 2022 - you will find Chris Bishop was proposing reducing isolation periods to 7 days - even way back then.

Nobody in the press questioned that.

Why would they?

It was not their job to hold Luxon to account, according to their seniors who had invented the revised job description in early 2018.

"Chris has done an exceptional job over the last year he's been talking about rapid antigen tests ...", said Chris Luxon about Bishop before saying the New Zealand public needed to see National proposing ideas...and how he wanted them to see that...and how National are a government in waiting now.

"Yes it's true. These plagiarists are a government in waiting" said a green wheelie bin with a blue ribbon tied around it.

Laughably, five days before Chris Bishop went to Queenstown on 31 January 2022 the Government announced its three phase omicron plan on 26 January 2022.

The press release on the Beehive website dated 26 January 2022 still shows the following bullet points :

* - Reducing isolation period for cases and close contacts at Phase Two and Three to 10 and seven days

* - Definition of close contact required to isolate changes to household or household like contacts at Phase Three

* - Increased use of rapid antigen tests with test to return policy put in place for health and critical workforce

* - Greater use of technology, including text notifications for cases and close contacts and automated contact identification

Clearly Chris Bishop was 5 days late and clearly not the "proposer" of a new ideas but more of a plagiarist of an old one.

So what gave Luxon the confidence to make untrue statements about National's "seven day isolation periods" being original or copied by Labour?

Only the certain knowledge he was amongst friends in the media.

Chris Luxon even complained that he had been calling for Labour to map out a plan - even when a plan had been mapped out.

How do media fail to point that out?

It was on record - and you could find it and verify it...along with many a heads up about the current decision making concerning contact tracing, isolation periods, the future of the traffic light system and vaccine mandates.

Would any of the journalists from 1 News, NewsHub, the NZ Herald or Stuff - point out the misleading comments made by Chris Luxon?

Not on your nelly.

He was a brand that media were nurturing together.

But why?

Only Lisa Owens got stuck in on RNZ Checkpoint and Lisa highlighted that Luxon was preaching without any scientific advice like a giant know it all who once ran an airline.

Luxon did not even listen to Dr Shame in his own party - that was something for Professor Bishflap to do.

But wait there's more.

Everybody uses google to look at what is going on in other countries - and political parties do it too.

It was big news in the UK in mid January 2022 when the UK moved to a five day isolation period.

"You mean it's not Chris Bishop's idea?" - screamed a child.

"Yes, he has no original ideas, only lies", said his mother.

“Let’s be clear, the decision by the Health Secretary to reduce the self-isolation period to 5 days is not a scientific decision, it is a political one.", said Dr Nathalie MacDermott, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer, King’s College London on 13 January 2022.

"It is important to note that perhaps a third of all positive individuals will still be infectious after 5 days.", wrote Dr Jonathan Stoye, Senior Group Leader and Head of the Retrovirus-Host Interactions Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute London, on the exact same day.

Meanwhile back home in New Zealand the Act Party licked its lips and copied down the moves made by the UK during January 2022 in the name of money, freedumb and opposition without science.

Act were busy writing a fourth policy document about why New Zealand should stop all restrictions for financial reasons - even before omicron had gotten through MIQ.

That's how far the money and politics were dominating the science at Act.

New Zealand's most wealthy and psychotic men gave millions to Act for its death cult cause in the name of greed.

Some pointed out that this right wing lack of respect for human life was characteristic of conspiracy theorists - who much like Luxon did not need nor heed scientific advice.

At the same time on 13 January 2022 , National's internationally acclaimed and much respected unscientific health expert Professor Chris Bishflap, a former tobacco salesman, told Tim Dower on Newstalk ZB that Clarke Gayford needs to know his place.

Chris Bishop's focus on Clarke Gayford's chat with a pharmacist mattered more to National than shortened isolation periods in mid January 2022.

But what about what we all saw yesterday after hearing the Government are currently working on decisions around reducing mandates, the future of contact tracing and the traffic light system?

Now the media are chasing around after Bishop and Luxon as if they are leading the way as Health and Economic Experts and portraying the government as dragging its tail.

Over the time it takes to make better informed decisions?

"Thank God Chris Luxon is here to beat some sense into Dr Bloomfield, Professor Skegg and all those other scientists about how they know nothing", said an organic punga.

"It's really Professor Bishop who we should thank for his original ideas and well earned authority", said a Flax Bush, shaking a fist at the Government.

Been-a-Dick Collins supported that view on 1 News last night.

Been-a Dick suggested the Government already knew what it was going to do next week but was making us all wait unnecessarily for cabinet to make unnecessary decisions based on unnecessary health advice - or something like that.

Labour were standing in the way of Chris Luxon and Chris Bishop who knew best on behalf of every business owner.

1 News bent over backwards to imply this.

Why are 1 News doing this?

We are all sick of it now.

Some portion of swing voters are switching to National with the help and urging of 1 News, Stuff, the NZ Herald and NewsHub who all refuse to point out Luxon's misleading spin.

Only RNZ have stood up to the nonsense.

Right now many people think National have proposed original ideas that Labour have stolen, that Labour had no plan, that it's all on the fly ...because Luxon repeats these lines and media smile and wave.

It's National's job to propose Labour's ideas, to lie about how the three point omicron plan did not exist, to pretend to be health experts who know best, and to know deep down with a smug smile - nobody will hold them to account for it.

How to win an election with media complicity

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