The report noted there was also a lack of clarity about who was in charge of implementing and monitoring the testing regimes.
In a letter to the minister by the committee co-chairs it said that the current model is improving, but it’s is not fit for purpose over a longer time period.
“We don’t have a status quo model which is well understood and could serve effectively for the next 24 to 36 months,” it said.
In this case, it was accentuated because there was (and still is) the stupid idea that ‘
this will all be over soon‘. Yeah right… Clearly the people in our population need more education about the historical process and progress of pandemics and epidemics. Perhaps the journalists could do some actual research and stop writing some of the complete crap that I keep reading from their opinions? This is going to take years to deal with. If we’re lucky…
Covid 19 coronavirus: Liam Dann - Content or complacent? New Zealand s happiness dilemma
19 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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OPINION:
I feel like we are heading into this summer break a happier nation than we were last year.
That s a bit nuts, but I guess it s just the way human brains are wired. The secret of happiness . is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping, wrote author Stef Penney in the novel The Tenderness of Wolves.
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That s one of my favourite quotes and I confess I have used it in a year-ender column once before.
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