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Originally Posted by fixed_truth
It's all about context. The track looks isolated & also it's terrain and elevation make it low risk for injury. If it was Joe blogs then it wouldn't have been noticed. It would've been someone between work meetings driving to a nearby track to do some exercise.
I think the facepalm thing is that he didn't anticipate how it would look because of his position as health minister. There's a group of people who need to be told what they should & shouldn't be doing and they're gonna see this as him just doing what he wants so why shouldn't they.
Also he obviously took the work vehicle to fit his bike in but ffs  |
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Originally Posted by Ab
This is the Minister of Health. What the fuck is he doing mountain biking in the South Island? Why the fuck is he not at work?
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Compare and contrast: during the 2009 Swine Flu, Minister of Health Tony Ryall (MP for Bay of Plenty) gave two press briefings a day from Wellington with situation updates.