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新西兰政府拨款1700万美元用艺术疗法抗击冠状病毒

Iwish we were joking. Minister Carmel Sepuloni is spending $17 million on"creative spaces" for "marginalised" New Zealanders to"build up their confidence and self-esteem" and gain "a sense offulfilment".

我希望这只是在开玩笑。卡梅尔·塞普罗尼（Carmel Sepuloni）部长正拨款1700万美元为“被边缘化”的新西兰人提供“创意空间”，以帮助他们“建立自信和自尊”并获得“成就感”。

Themoney comes from Creative NZ's $374 million ‘Arts and Culture COVID RecoveryProgramme’, part of the overall COVID response fund.

这笔资金来自“创意新西兰”的“艺术和文化新冠疫情恢复计划”，计划资金总规模为3.74亿美元，是整个新冠疫情应对基金的一部分。

We'vepreviously highlighted dodgy COVID-19 arts grants, but at least they had avague link to the pandemic (i.e. projects that could be progressed duringlockdown). Now, Creative NZ is just grifting us.

我们之前曾重点讨论过不合理的新冠疫情艺术拨款，但至少它们和疫情还有些关系（例如在封锁隔离期间仍可以推进的项目）。现在，“创意新西兰”只是在欺骗我们。

Sorryto say it, but art therapy is not an established inoculant for COVID-19. Nordoes art therapy work as an economic response to the pandemic when there are somany more vital projects in health and infrastructure.

我们很遗憾这么说，但艺术疗法并不是公认的新冠肺炎接种剂。当前健康和基础设施领域还有很多亟需实施的项目，艺术疗法也不应作为应对疫情的经济措施。

Ifthe Government really wants to throw hundreds of millions of dollars at artprojects, so be it – but at least drop the pretense that this has anything todo with COVID-19.

如果政府真的要在艺术项目上扔进数亿美元，那就这样做吧——但至少不要假装这与新冠肺炎有任何关系。

来源：新西兰纳税人联合会邮件新闻稿。