When you are in a helicopter do you believe it will crash? The statistics say it’s not all that likely, although a whole lot more likely than being in a car crash. And how about the risks of vaccines? How do we make best choices about which risks to take?
Already the government is rethinking our COVID strategy as the result of Delta – the strategy came out in August and now it’s September, that didn’t last long. Surely it’s not that hard to assess risk?
When people have differing opinions, providing more facts can polarise opinions rather than leading to agreement. How come? And how does this relate to our vaccine targets?
Is New Zealand one of only 4 countries in lockdown? And are we poorly vaccinated on a world scale? Let’s look at the facts.
Back in Level 4 lockdown again. I’m wondering why children can’t be vaccinated and whether they should be.
A year on from Jacinda Ardern announcing the first COVID lockdown and we’re still in the midst of COVID. So much has changed but there’s so far still to go. The next year’s questions look to revolve around vaccination and when we might leave NZ again.
The Speaker of the House tried to force Rawiri Waititi (Māori party co-leader) to wear a tie but had to back down after commentary including Waititi calling a tie a ‘colonial noose’. Cultures and times change…there’s a related challenge in the Māori community over the rights of wahine Māori to speak on marae.
