The True Face of Kindness

Forty stories describe what the covid years were really like for ordinary New Zealanders. We were sold a story of kindness, a new kind of politics, but what was the reality behind the spin? Especially for those who found themselves on the wrong side of the official narrative. The stories in this book are a chapter of the real life history of that period. What all the writers have in common is that sooner or later they found themselves losing sympathy with the government's covid strategy — one of the harshest in the world? What did it cost them as a result? These stories tell the truth, in all its rawness, of the personal challenges of lockdowns, alert levels, mandates, government overreach, but also of the 'sweet uses of adversity'. Here for the first time is the human face of the so-called politics of 'kindness'.