The best times were from the 90s through to about the mid 2000s in my opinion. We had the start of the evil sneaking in when the UniParty took over. John Key the 2008 PM was an out and out globalist and on the night he got elected he had pizzas delivered to the media outside his home - if that happened now obviously that would be a red flag. I should have realised how deeply suss it was that he was always hanging out with Obama in Hawaii.

The people are still lovely here, they are not zombies but I get the sense that they are ready to be switched back into the Covid fear mode. After the masks started coming off I started noticing again why I loved living among my fellow Kiwis so much, but when they had the masks on they really were cold zombies. There was much solidarity in hating on the unvaxxed and those that tried to point out the insanity of the pointless masking. I honestly believe there is a cohort of Kiwis who are dead inside and the Covid tyranny gave their empty lives meaning and a way to feel like they belonged to something bigger than their hollow, mindless lives. I fear that they are longing for the return of tyranny.

I used to blindly trust the old warm Kiwi culture, now I know it was an illusion. I know almost everyone I ever am going to meet is one press conference away from zombiehood. It is one of the saddest things I think I have ever experienced.

But I'm glad you experienced how great and beautiful it used to be here.