“Be kind.”

It is the mantra every one of us has heard so many times, beaten into our subconscious from the podium and the media for the last two years.

But why? Why has Jacinda Ardern felt it necessary to base the public image of her government’s Covid response on this phrase? It does not make sense and never has.

Google Dictionary defines kind as: adjective – having or showing a friendly, generous, and considerate nature, and according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary it means of a sympathetic or helpful nature.

Now, based on these definitions, my observation of the majority of the people I cross paths with on a daily basis, is that they are ‘kind’. They were kind before the Covid pandemic, and they’re still kind now. They’re not perfect but, for the most part, they’re kind.

So what does Jacinda want to get across by telling us to ‘be kind’? Did she think a virus was going to suddenly flip the kind nature of most people and make them into a team of 5 million little devils? And for those few who aren’t generally ‘kind’, did she think ramming ‘be kind’ down their throats from the Podium of Truth would suddenly make them kind by nature?

I also have another observation based on these definitions of ‘kind’. Ardern’s government is not. It is not kind. Not at all, never was, never meant to be. Behind the façade of hugs, smiles, and selfies, there has not been one ounce of kindness in her government or her Covid response.

According to the definitions above, to be kind is to be generous, considerate, sympathetic and helpful.

The government tried to formulate a ‘generous’ image with the wage subsidy. But really? Is forced temporary unemployment while relying on weekly payments nearly 15% lower than minimum wage generosity?

What about ‘considerate and sympathetic’?

Considerate and sympathetic to small business owners? No.

Considerate and sympathetic to financially struggling families? No.

Considerate and sympathetic to mental health? No.

To grieving families and friends of people who pass away during lockdowns? No.

My wife has not been able to visit family overseas for three years because of this government’s kindness. And it’s not just her, it’s thousands upon thousands of others who are unable to visit loved ones, in many cases just 100km or less down the road! All in the name of ‘kindness’.

 

So, this begs the question: Who are we supposed to be kind to?

 

All things considered, there is only one conclusion we can come to. We the people, the team of 5 million are supposed to be kind to only one group.

We are to be kind to Jacinda, her government, and her ‘plan’.

We know this is the case, because the moment Jacinda realised people had had enough of her plan, all the kindness went out the window. Yep, that’s right. We really actually haven’t heard the mantra that much recently have we? No, instead, when people began to stand up for their rights (legally), there were arrests. When she realised that there is a significant portion of her ‘team of 5 million’ that want to exercise their right to not take a vaccine; kindness? No.

Instead, we are supposed to treat these people as second-class citizens whose human rights are no longer of any concern.

All along, we were never meant to be kind to our fellow man. We were only meant to be kind to Jacinda. We were meant to create a façade of kindness, so that she could present New Zealand to the world as a socialist paradise, full of kindness, even in the middle of a global crisis. We were meant to be kind to her plan and peacefully submit to her overreaching control as a model ‘team’ to showcase her ‘leadership’ to the powers that be. This kindness is all a ruse for what, a comfy role at the UN? Accolades, a Nobel?

 

I guess that remains to be seen, but the one thing we can be sure of, the kindness was only ever one way, and it wasn’t the way of the people.