Summary
New Zealand’s royal commission into its Covid-19 response found vaccine mandates were reasonable based on available data but acknowledged they harmed social cohesion.
The report praised the country’s elimination strategy for achieving one of the lowest Covid death rates among developed nations while preventing healthcare system collapse.
However, it criticized prolonged lockdowns, weak health system preparedness, and a lack of planning for future crises.
Commissioners urged broad investment in pandemic readiness and emphasized the importance of both frontline and planning staff.
A second phase of the inquiry will review vaccine harms and conclude in 2026.
In this thread, many people making judgements based on incorrect facts and ignoring that New Zealand’s biggest city had about a years worth of strict lockdown over the 2 year period from 2020-2021. In this thread you’ll also find New Zealanders from outside of Auckland commenting about their personal experience on behalf of everyone from the country.
Is this the non-evil version of “We investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong?”
We’ve investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing.
By contrast USA had over 600,000 preventable deaths due to their utter lack of response… So is this what you would have preferred???
if only. more like we have to milk grandma and grandpa of all their life savings by keeping their miserable asses alive in assisted living for the economy.
[Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick suggests he, other seniors willing to die to get economy going again.
“Those of us who are 70 plus, we’ll take care of ourselves. But don’t sacrifice the country,” Patrick told Tucker Carlson.]
"And I encourage it to be released soon … the next pandemic may not be far away. We need to get on and prepare.”
Yeah, it’ll probably come from the US due to some vaccines becoming illegal in some States. Let’s just hope it doesnt spread through mouth rain like covid does.
Basically small droplets of water that are emitted from your mouth as you speak. They can’t be seen with the naked eye, and they float on the air. Its how covid is spread so fast in indoor settings.
I first heard it referred to as “mouth rain” on a Radio Lab podcast episode early in the pandemic
