Epidemiologist Tony Blakely, a Kiwi living in Melbourne, was appointed to lead the investigation
The key, sadly, is the terms of engagement. This is how Governments get around things
You announce an inquiry and this immediately gets trouble off your back, because whatever the drama of the day is the next time the question arises you can say "we will leave that to the inquiry".
If the inquiry result is bad news you release it on a Friday and hope no one notices, or if worse comes to worst, you say you accept the findings and recommendation
This inquiry needed to happen given a lot of countries are having one and because there was tremendous upset and a huge array of question marks around how the pandemic was handled
So far they’ve talked to a few at the coalface. Now it is time for the public submissions.
Which means the next part is the disappointment.
Whatever it says won't change anything and I think that, ultimately, is the great Covid lesson. You got what you got based on who was running the place, not because there was a playbook.
If you want a good reference Britain is having their inquiry this week and one of this week's highlights has been Dominic Cummings.
Dominic hates Boris Johnson. Dominic once liked Boris and worked for him, but when that changed Dominic has spent quite a lot of time and, certainly quite a lot more energy, crapping all over the Tories in a campaign of some real intensity.
Part of that has played out for the cameras this week. The point being is it has less to do with Covid and more to do with politics. Dominic wants Boris to look bad.
Ours will be no different.
That's because, and this is the second part of the lesson, Covid is not only about who happens to be running the place but their response will almost certainly be politically motivated, not health related.
They told us ours was health based. But the overlay was the Jacinda Ardern view of the world, the control freak-like approach to bossing everyone around and making astonishing amounts of rules based on not a lot.
If you're an anti-vaxxer, an anti-mandater, an anti-MIQ'er then I wouldn’t bother. They say they want to hear from you, but they don’t.
It ultimately will be a door-stop report with lots of anecdotes, a lot of praise for the difficult days and a suggestion we did amazingly.
But as for light, clarity, lessons and change?
Forget it.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
If the inquiry result is bad news you release it on a Friday and hope no one notices, or if worse comes to worst, you say you accept the findings and recommendation
This inquiry needed to happen given a lot of countries are having one and because there was tremendous upset and a huge array of question marks around how the pandemic was handled
So far they’ve talked to a few at the coalface. Now it is time for the public submissions.
Which means the next part is the disappointment.
Whatever it says won't change anything and I think that, ultimately, is the great Covid lesson. You got what you got based on who was running the place, not because there was a playbook.
If you want a good reference Britain is having their inquiry this week and one of this week's highlights has been Dominic Cummings.
Dominic hates Boris Johnson. Dominic once liked Boris and worked for him, but when that changed Dominic has spent quite a lot of time and, certainly quite a lot more energy, crapping all over the Tories in a campaign of some real intensity.
Part of that has played out for the cameras this week. The point being is it has less to do with Covid and more to do with politics. Dominic wants Boris to look bad.
Ours will be no different.
That's because, and this is the second part of the lesson, Covid is not only about who happens to be running the place but their response will almost certainly be politically motivated, not health related.
They told us ours was health based. But the overlay was the Jacinda Ardern view of the world, the control freak-like approach to bossing everyone around and making astonishing amounts of rules based on not a lot.
If you're an anti-vaxxer, an anti-mandater, an anti-MIQ'er then I wouldn’t bother. They say they want to hear from you, but they don’t.
It ultimately will be a door-stop report with lots of anecdotes, a lot of praise for the difficult days and a suggestion we did amazingly.
But as for light, clarity, lessons and change?
Forget it.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
1 comment:
A question I would like to ask is why did politicians direct doctors how to treat symptoms of a viral infection but also proscribe how NOT to treat their patients. And how can doctors be charged with a crime for advising a patient about treatments they don't believe are safe? And how come all governments were singing from the same songbook? And then calling all dissenters conspiracy theorists.
MC
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