NZ First

[SueDonim]

Covid has of course had an impact, but it can't be blamed for everything, and the Covid management that started off so well has also turned to crap now too.

so that is several times now i've heard that same line recently ( the "Covid management that started off so well has also turned to crap now to") - just so i'm clear on this everything was actually ok 'back then' , but now it is not? What is wrong with the covid management at this point in time?  Too many restrictions?

Too few restrictions - there's a huge danger of an increase in numbers again. We had the traffic light system that was supposed to enable specific regions to go to red when their hospitals were unable to cope. So what happened? We had a whole winter at orange with the hospitals totally overwhelmed and no one went to red. Then suddenly it's all gone.

I know that the government had to show the severity of the impact to renew the order under which the rules functioned and maybe that was difficult, but not insurmountable. What we do have now is the hospital staff bailing out in droves from overwork, no one wearing masks any more, most shops seem to have removed the hand sanitiser at the door, the tourist ships are back and there's a new variant in the wings.

Which also brings me to why have we not got access to the new booster that protects against the more current variants?