While many of the NZ Woke were attempting to sell concerns about the Wuhan outbreak as xenophobic in early 2020, TDB was one of the first NZ media to argue that this wasn’t an identity politics issue and in fact had all the ingredients of a global pandemic.
TDB was one of the first to claim the borders would be shut for at least 5 years.
TDB was one of the first to point out the inflation fears driven by supply side shortages.
TDB was one of the first to point out that the Lab leak wasn’t as impossible as the woke claimed.