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Special Report: Air pollution is behind one in every 10 deaths in New Zealand, shattering our self-perception as a clean, green nation.
What are we going to do about it?
Marc Daalder 😷 Wear a Mask
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Marc Daalder 😷 Wear a Mask
@marcdaalder
Senior Political Reporter @NewsroomNZ covering climate change, health, energy and violent extremism | DM for Signal | #WearAMask | He/him ✡️📰
- More than 70 people were killed in gang-related shootings in New Zealand over the past week. Oh, sorry, they were killed by Covid-19, so we won't talk about them.
- Replying to @marcdaalderThis isn't crowing. I'm American. The West's botched pandemic response is a fucking travesty. And a tragedy. But bad faith critics would rather see the rest of the world undergo the same fate than admit they were wrong. They can't be allowed to make that argument unchallenged.
- Replying to @marcdaalderOn Donald Trump's bashing New Zealand's outbreak, Jacinda Ardern says: "I think everyone can see that in New Zealand today we're talking 11 cases, whereas the United States has been dealing with over 40,000 cases."
- Some personal news: Married my best friend, the only person who would willingly trudge through knee-high estuary water in search of obscure shorebirds just so she can always be by my side 💕💕
- I'd like to see more coverage of #Convoy2022NZ include Telegram & Zello chats. There's nothing wrong with interviewing protesters, but the things they say when they think no one's watching should be at least as representative of their views/intentions as what they tell reporters.
- Replying to @marcdaalderIf the UK and US had New Zealand's death rate, they'd have had 347 and 1,707 deaths, respectively. Instead the UK has seen 131,269 people die of Covid-19 and the US has seen 621,635. Most of these were preventable.
- Unsurprising silence this morning from the public faces of the occupation, like Voices for Freedom or Chantelle Baker. They stood side-by-side with violent extremists and enabled yesterday's violence, but now have nothing to say.
- The Venn diagram of people who thought the illegal and ultimately violent occupation of Parliament was an inviolable expression of free speech and people who think a legal rally in a public space today was a violation of free speech is a circle.
- In Sweden, with no lockdown: Consumer spending down 25%, 3679 deaths. In Denmark, with lockdown: Consumer spending down 29%, 547 deaths. Nearly seven times as many deaths for to bump spending by 4%. What choice would you make? #Covid19
- Farmers make up: - 1.16% of the population 🙋💁♀️ - 5.5% of GDP 🥛🥩💲 - 48% of greenhouse gas emissions 🐄🐑 - 70% of NZ's contribution to global warming 🌏🔥 A price on livestock emissions is reasonable and rooted in science. #nzpol
- Thinking about how two cops in Christchurch rammed the mosque terrorist's car off the road and arrested him even while they thought he and the car might be rigged to explode. But 19 Texas cops wait an hour to breach a classroom while the gunman keeps shooting kids.The #Uvalde timeline offered by Texas officials right now is gutting. There were 19 police officers in the hallway who made the decision not to break into the room, at the same time children inside were alive and calling 911. One begged “please send police now.”
- Friendly reminder that if we had listened to Damien Grant and opened up last August, thousands of people would have died from a virus for which we developed an effective vaccine just months later.
