The horror of the push alert (Patreon)

I really need to turn off news alerts.

The nature of my work means I need to know what's going on in media land, but the Covid alerts are ruinous!

They seem to love coming through right about when I'm thinking about going to bed which makes sleep so much harder.

I'm just watching the news of the cases pop up around Waikato at the moment and at least it's not the horror of the late night news alert.

It's nearly time to watch the 1pm press conference which seems to soothe my angst. The big announcement on Monday didn't, it sent me into a panic but after digesting the plan, I felt better. Particularly after reading what Michael Baker had to say about the plan. That man has been frighteningly accurate.

That said, Monday's announcement was such a weird botch up communications wise. Which is unusual for the PM. She's been so on point and so clear it's been amazing. Monday just brought confusion and fear. I wonder what changed?

I'm still optimistic, but we're relying on people to do the right thing, and we mustn't lose sight that on the whole we are doing the right thing. Unfortunately a small minority is still a heck of a lot of people.

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National is beating the gang drum again. The public health team has engaged with Mongrel Mob leaders to try and get to those "hard to reach communities" (what a wypipo euphemism that's become); National has said we must do whatever we can to reach the hard to reach. So we did. But now the Government is soft on gangs. And maybe they are? But in this instance I think there's a greater good at play.

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This continued delta outbreak has been a saviour of Judith Collins' leadership. But it may end up killing it. There's a theory going round that as soon as National looks like they might be a chance at the next election that the party will roll her. And Labour hasn't looked so vulnerable as they do now. Next poll will be interesting eh?