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Mark the Week: Ministry of Health's appalling medical experiment

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Fri, 8 May 2020, 10:55AM
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Mark the Week: Ministry of Health's appalling medical experiment

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 8 May 2020, 10:55AM

At the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. 

The Ministry of Health and the Compassionate Cases.

1/10.

"Exposed in the most brutal of ways.

We have confirmation that this medical experiment is of complete and utter fascination for them, at the expense of thousands of ordinary New Zealanders' lives."

Ashley Bloomfield.

4/10.

"Hope you didn’t buy the t-shirt.

Still knowledgeable and calm with the numbers, but defended the indefensible.

He got taken to court and lost, and is now reviewing the cases with something that has a pulse, not an algorithm."

Jacinda Ardern.

4/10.

"This is her worst week of the crisis, and by some margin. And it came about by hitching her wagon to the Bloomfield express.

"For a leader coated in the veneer of humanity, what we heard this week from those families, a policy she endorsed, exposed the venal political side of her operation."

The Wage Subsidy.

8/10.

"It's worked, and yet a lot tried to pull it down this week.

Were there other ways? Probably. Were they as clean and efficient? I doubt it."

Simon Bridges.

7/10.

"His SME package proves the value of opposition.

It made sense, it was costed, it is a better policy than the government's.

And that’s before you get to his committee."

The Resource Management Act Reforms.

7/10.

"Bulldozed to one side to let building begin.

Smart business, smart politics."

Sam Cane as new All Blacks Captain.

8/10.

"Lord knows when he plays, but surely this is the dream of any kid who ever grabs a ball, and dreams big."

The Warriors.

8/10.

"They're in Australia, actually training, and kick off is a couple of weeks away.

Sport is back. They willed it to happen. There is a message in that for us all."

Michael Moore's Planet of the Humans.

9/10.

"Apart from After Life Season Two, if you watch nothing else this weekend, watch this and the scandal that is greenwashing and renewable energy."

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