Posted by alexandra_k on March 20, 2021, at 17:50:08
In reply to Re: Who has gotten a Covid Vaccine Experiences?, posted by alexandra_k on March 20, 2021, at 4:43:06
and they will say it's because the tourists aren't here. it was built for the tourists and the tourists aren't here. that's why it feels empty.
but that's not true because i was saying about how empty it really was a few years back, now.
it was particularly striking doing first year health science and they pack things intentionally so there's a stampede and a crush outside the lecture theatres. e.g., to get in to 10am cell biology class there would be a pack of studnets... around 1,000 of them outside the lecture theatre in the 30 minutes or so prior to lecture.
and the traffic... the morning traffic as everybody tries to arrive in the city at exactly the same time. 9am. or 8.30am to beat the traffic. or 8am to beat the traffic. and everybody leaves at the same time. 3pm to pick up the kids from school. or 5 pm when they get off work. or 5.30pm to avoid the traffic or 6pm to avoid the traffic.
but when i was out of that... walking down the streets at 9:30am and *there is nobody here*. The roads are empty. The motorways are nearly empty. There are no people in sight. The people are artificially kept huddling outside the lecture theatre in a cramped space. Or huddled 60 to a floor inside an open plan office.
With every other floor (at least): EMPTY.
There's nobody here.
The government kept records on arrivals...
But not departures. They didn't keep records on how many people FLED NZ.
And the tourist reviews got worse and worse and worse and people stopped coming here. So we intentionally marketed / advertised to... It became about 'how low can you go'.
And about getting refugees and migrant workers to do the work that locals wouldn't do. Trick or con them into it while their language skills werent' good enough for them to hear what the people with power really thought of them / their occuption. Etc.
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