How can Professor Blakely, who is co-author of NZ's Royal Commission Report into Covid, write a report critiquing our government's approach to Covid when he was the intellectual architect of that approach? He co-authored the British Medical Journal article with Professor Michael Baker called, "Elimination could be the optimal response strategy for covid-19". That paper falsely claimed, "A goal of eliminating community transmission of the pandemic virus causing covid-19 is achievable and sustainable". It was not sustainable. That paper asserted elimination "will be facilitated by the introduction of effective vaccines". Bollocks.
