Damien Grant: John Key and Jacinda Ardern both turned to debt when disaster hit

There are many revelations in the Covid report that a cantankerous columnist with libertarian inclinations could focus on but I am going to bring your attention to this one;

“… a country’s opportunity to adopt an exclusion/elimination policy is largely contingent on … being a high-income nation … that is, on New Zealand’s ability to efficiently produce the goods and services demanded in global markets, supported by prudent economic policies.”