Well, we seem to have done it. New Zealanders have met Covid 19 head on and kicked its bum soundly.

It has probably only suffered a few bruises at this stage, but thanks to the rapid response of our Government and the keen participation of most of the "team of five million" we have effectively neutered it at this point in time.

However among that team of five million there have been some dickheads who have done their best to undermine our efforts. Thankfully they have been in the minority, but just the same, it only takes one dickhead to begin an outbreak of the virus as seen in South Korea.

These dickheads have deliberately breached the eminently sensible restrictions that have been placed upon us to halt the advance of this nasty virus and it has been purely for their own selfish ends. We have also had to endure another bunch of idiots whining about the fact that they can't go to the pub, have a party, hold a wake, go to the regular weekly meeting of their favourite cult etc, etc.

None of these activities are necessary and at a time when people's lives depended upon us hunkering down and making a few (mostly minor) sacrifices, they weren't that hard to accept.

Throughout Level 4 and Level 3 we were all able to do everything we "needed" to. We could go to the doctor if we needed to, we could go shopping for food if we needed to and we could go outside and take a walk if we needed to, albeit while keeping our distance from others for their sake and our own. We had to stay within our own neighbourhood by and large, but that wasn't anything like being locked up in a refugee camp or a gulag or a concentration camp.

Still, I guess these whineybags have not yet evolved to the stage where they know the difference between "wants" and "needs", so perhaps I shouldn't judge them too harshly.

However some of these dickheads deserve special mention. There were the boofheads that spat on police and supermarket staff and who should have been tasered into ashes for their trouble, but instead were simply fined instead and probably won't pay those anyway. I felt the Police took a very wimpy stance on such breaches. They said they would educate people the first time, warn them on the second occasion and prosecute on the third occasion. This wasn't really the case, because I know for a fact that they allowed far more leniency than that. A neighbour was spoken to on at least two occasions in the same day for having people from outside their bubble staying over with them and continued their breach even after the cops had spoken to them for a second time that day. The Police also admitted that one idiot that they prosecuted had been spoken to on five occasions before they did anything meaningful about it.

There were several other high profile miscreants, only one of whom suffered any consequences for their actions. Minister of Health, David Clark was the first such twit, who decided it would be alright for him to drive out of his area to go mountain biking and also took a trip to a beach, that was well out of his area. This was not a particularly serious breach, but it was definitely a dumb one and he paid the price by being stripped of his role as Associate Finance Minister and demoted in the cabinet rankings by the PM who immediately understood the consequences of not acting immediately and decisively.

However no such actions were taken with the leader of the opposition, the Dishonourable Soimun The Pixie. This little troll thought he was so special that it was perfectly okay for him to drive backwards and forwards between his home in Tauranga and Parliament on a weekly basis, while the rest of the MPs chose either to stay in Wellington or go home and do their parliamentary business via Skype, Zoom and telephone. Somewhat disturbingly the press let him off the hook for the most part, but he should have been facing charges because his breaches were so cynical and deliberate.

I shouldn't be too surprised nobody dealt with him (at the time) because it seems to be part of the National Party DNA to believe that you are too important to have to do what the "Hoi Polloi" are being asked to do.

Northland MP Matt King is a case in point. He engineered confrontations with Northland Maori who had taken it upon themselves to put up road blocks to (quite reasonably, I believe) stop outsiders cruising into their province during Levels 3 and 4. Then this week when we only had to deal with the very minor inconvenience of Level 2, he went out to a restaurant and deliberately breached the social distancing rules with restaurant staff who were probably too scared to tell him to fuck off. He then made matters worse by posting the photographic evidence on Facebook and when challenged about it he launched into a diatribe against the PM for still having these restrictions and stating "This is not Nazi Germany". He should be disciplined, but I doubt that he will be as it would be hard for the Pixie to carry that out considering his own performance. However the Pixie will not be around much longer as his continual whining and bleating has finally begun to piss his own party off and he should be almost literally "gone by lunchtime".

However in my opinion the most stupid act of the lot was by cult leader Braindead Tamaki who tried to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear by announcing that he and his motley crew were going to breach the restrictions on Church gatherings because it was their right. As usual he was all piss and wind and didn't actually do what he said he would. Instead he set up a kind of drive in and get your cult and fries event. People for the most part were in their cars and so no actual breach seems to have occurred. It was hard to miss the irony of one who always tries to make out he is holier than thou being prepared to put at risk the health of all those suckers who finance his obscenely extravagant lifestyle in order to show off.

Thankfully most Kiwis have done the right thing all along and it is thanks to their good sense that we seem to have halted the transmission of Covid 19 in New Zealand. Of course we have paid a high price for it as far as the economy goes, but I suspect we will bounce that back quicker than anyone else too if we attack it in the same united fashion.