It became painfully evident yesterday at the daily one o'clock bingo session why we have to endure another eight if not more days in level three. 

There are no new cases, so why would you want to get back to business?

Given he had nothing to say, Ashley “have my baby” Bloomfield used the gathering to impart more spin. And this is why they keep these charades going.

Every 24 hours they have a collection of journalists, many with little more ability than to simply transfer the words uttered directly to the six o'clock news, gathered, ready, and attentive. It's a politicians dream, and don’t think Bloomfield isn't a politician. He's been as guilty as any of them when its come to the bollocks around PPE and flu jabs.

So yesterday, with the revelation over the weekend that the 700,000 jabs are about the place, they're just not exactly sure where specifically, and after the Prime Minister's car crash interview on the subject  here yesterday, it was up to good old Bloomfield to talk some more about how the flu jab problem, isn't a problem. It’s a figment of every medicos imagination, and if they just looked under the nearest pile of PPE they'd probably find a couple of hundred jabs.

To give some due, it really is a skill to BS as long as these guys have, and still do it without blushing or bursting into laughter.

Bloomfield talked weeks ago of war time footing in terms of distribution. You'd have to conclude if there was actually a war, it would have been lost by now and even someone as insignificant as Papua New Guinea could have come in here and rolled us by lunch time.

Back to the zero, for weeks now its been three new cases daily, or two, or five, and on a bad day nine. And each and every one of those days more people got better than got ill, and so our number has been tracking backwards.

And still they say, it's too soon. But the people who say that, have jobs, and safe ones. They don’t run businesses, they don’t employ people, and they don’t fill out GST forms.

For those people, the majority of us, we look at countries opening up with hundreds, if not thousands, of cases, we see death rates, we see real health issues, and yet we see haircuts given, parks played in, and shop doors open.

Here, with a death toll laughably small and no new cases, we see as severe a lock down as anywhere. And for what? So the medicos can satisfy their obsession of dotting every I and crossing every T?

It's what happens when as a politician you haven't run anything. You rely on officials, the officials have captured the government and the government are running the country into the ground.

For what? Zero new cases.