Dunedin’s panic-mongering epidemiologist David Skegg struggles with the English language. He told Morning Report, “elimination is a process, not a destination.” That’s gibberish.

In fact elimination is a destination requiring a process for it to be reached, just like say, running a marathon or any other human endeavour.

The one abiding feature of the news report showing the protestors in Louisville, initially marching quietly together, about half black and half white and mostly only in their twenties, was obesity.

It was extraordinary and explains in part, first why America covid statistics are so bad and also, why for the last four years, U.S life expectancy has dropped each year.

To date, thanks to the government and media’s disproportionate obsession with the corona virus, the normal election fervour has been missing in action. In these circumstances the historically unprecedented lop-sided polling becomes explicable.

There are times I feel we should all be wearing compulsory life-jackets to avoid mass drowning given the amount of government-inspired wetness in the community. Furthermore, it’s getting worse.

The latest saturation outburst is the Sign Language Awareness week replacing Maori Wonderfulness week.

Described as Germany’s most celebrated virologist, Professor Hendrik Streeck this week issued a warning to nations going back into lockdowns.

“Hold your nerve and don’t succumb to the pervasive mood of mass hysteria,” he said. “It’s time to stop all this alarmism. We can outsmart the virus using all our knowledge. We have to learn that Covid-19 is going to be with us for a long time and we must learn to live with it. We can’t keep shutting down our daily lives and paralysing everything.”