👍Thanks for all of this, but especially the donor who has sent the Tiriti book to the schools 👏🖤❤️ - I went on-line immediately & bought one to see if it might solve a few Xmas present ideas (& also to help me with my submission process for the See-less racist bill 🤔)
Bottom line on the COVID Inquiry findings - "Aotearoa New Zealand" (loved that that is what they called us👍) did not uniquely have family disruptions, social disconnections, inequity of services & outcomes, and ALL of the negative downsides to an unprecedented global pandemic that NO COUNTRY was totally prepared for and few if any came out any better at managing - i.e. the health system coping, keeping the economy working & unemployment contained, having a high vaccination rate quickly, and my biggest PLUS is the numbers of my older & immuno-compromised whanau & friends who are alive BECAUSE of how the response was managed here in "Aotearoa New Zealand".
🤔 Hindsight is always much easier than being in the midst of chaos & having to work with unfolding information & scientific data when literally 10,000's of lives were at risk if you got it wrong. 🤢 It behoves us to remember what was happening AT THE TIME and not re-visit decisions based on information no-one IN THE WORLD had at the time eh⁉️ Of course, there are always things that could/should be done better given what we know now, and some amongst us will never accept that their personal perspective & /or grievance isn't more important than the welfare of the whole nation, but it's always lives saved by direct comparison to other nations & the way they managed things that is the real verdict for ME 🤷
Very well put Cindy and yes I call total BS on the briefings being politicsied. I don't see the value of that being in the report when it's "some people's opinion". I am just really thankful that this heinous government wasn't in power back then!
And many people found Jacinda's presence at press conferences reassuring. It's very easy to look in the rear view mirror and pass judgement, but health specialists like Michael Baker and the Labour govt did an outstanding job, in the face of considerable abuse and misinformation. In my view, NZ handled it particularly well.
Historically there has always been social unrest during periods of quarantine. During the Cholera epidemic there were riots in the street as people thought the government of the time was poisoning them. That wasn't Labour's fault either.
👍Thanks for all of this, but especially the donor who has sent the Tiriti book to the schools 👏🖤❤️ - I went on-line immediately & bought one to see if it might solve a few Xmas present ideas (& also to help me with my submission process for the See-less racist bill 🤔)
Bottom line on the COVID Inquiry findings - "Aotearoa New Zealand" (loved that that is what they called us👍) did not uniquely have family disruptions, social disconnections, inequity of services & outcomes, and ALL of the negative downsides to an unprecedented global pandemic that NO COUNTRY was totally prepared for and few if any came out any better at managing - i.e. the health system coping, keeping the economy working & unemployment contained, having a high vaccination rate quickly, and my biggest PLUS is the numbers of my older & immuno-compromised whanau & friends who are alive BECAUSE of how the response was managed here in "Aotearoa New Zealand".
🤔 Hindsight is always much easier than being in the midst of chaos & having to work with unfolding information & scientific data when literally 10,000's of lives were at risk if you got it wrong. 🤢 It behoves us to remember what was happening AT THE TIME and not re-visit decisions based on information no-one IN THE WORLD had at the time eh⁉️ Of course, there are always things that could/should be done better given what we know now, and some amongst us will never accept that their personal perspective & /or grievance isn't more important than the welfare of the whole nation, but it's always lives saved by direct comparison to other nations & the way they managed things that is the real verdict for ME 🤷
Cindy I totally agree with the comments - well done!!
Very well put Cindy and yes I call total BS on the briefings being politicsied. I don't see the value of that being in the report when it's "some people's opinion". I am just really thankful that this heinous government wasn't in power back then!
COVID was scary, particularly pre-vaccine,
And many people found Jacinda's presence at press conferences reassuring. It's very easy to look in the rear view mirror and pass judgement, but health specialists like Michael Baker and the Labour govt did an outstanding job, in the face of considerable abuse and misinformation. In my view, NZ handled it particularly well.
Historically there has always been social unrest during periods of quarantine. During the Cholera epidemic there were riots in the street as people thought the government of the time was poisoning them. That wasn't Labour's fault either.