And here's why the new government has done the right thing in expanding the scope of the Commission of Inquiry into COVID :
Investigative journalist Kate McNamara alerts us to the fact that the Labour-appointed Chair of the Covid-19 Royal Commission of Inquiry is a guy called
Tony Blakely.
Tony Blakely, Honorary Professor University of Otago, wrote a research article with Michael Baker and Nick Wilson of the University of Otago, called "Elimination could be the optimal response strategy for Covid-19 and other emerging pandemic diseases", published in the British Medical Journal in 2020!
The article stated that "Elimination .. probably reduced overall economic contraction relative to the suppression strategy". Really? The NZ economy has one of the lowest growth rates in the world at present - and is mired in recession, debt, a failing infrastructure, collapsing health & education systems and with more children in material hardship.
Meanwhile the US, no elimination strategy, is booming.
The article further stated that "A goal of eliminating community transmission of covid-19 is achievable & sustainable .. and will be facilitated by the introduction of effective vaccines".
It was not sustainable - not in NZ, not anywhere.
The elimination "strategy" was not "facilitated" by vaccines. That is unambiguously wrong. People who take the vaccine are still able to pass the virus on.
How can a coauthor of Baker's chair the Commission?
And most interesting of all is that Tony Blakely has taken the Article above from his list of publications!
https://www.otago.ac.nz/bms/expertise/profile?id=170
Ardern & Hipkins = COVER UP CON ARTISTS.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...pkins-1120.jpg
NZers? Fools! So easy to hoodwink and pull the wool over their eyes!