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Originally Posted by fixed_truth
You don't think that comparatively NZ managed the pandemic well?
Or is this just your default anti-intellectual dunning kruger go to?
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This is just Duncan Grieve licking the government's ass because they give him money. This isn't "journalism" - the article serves no other purpose than to congratulate the government for the COVID response and convince people that what we just went through was in fact excellent. We all lived through the response - we all have our own perspective about what the government did well, and what we think it got wrong. Even when we ranked poorly, Duncan finds a way to paint it in a positive light.
It reads very much like a typical Kiwi "per capita" argument that explains that even though we didn't win the Olympics, we still "won" in our own Kiwi way. "Our deaths were sometimes the highest per million - but that's just because others were lower!" "Inflation is up... but it could be higher, so we'll ignore it" "Our lockdowns were the worst, which makes them the best" "We had the most cases per million at some points - that's what success looks like because look over here... I'm going to talk about vaccines and how many we gave out, so don't worry about the case numbers and how there doesn't seem to be a relation. The fact there is no relation is an A+ from me because imagine how bad it would be if we weren't vaccinated."
No one needs to hear any of it, but Duncan feels a need to write it.
It certainly doesn't paint the Government like maniacs that didn't listen, made stupid rules that didn't make sense, and killed a few people with mandates for a vaccine that in hindsight was unnecessary, and beat up those who tried to point out only old people needed the vaccine anyway. Forget about all that. Even though these are probably more important issues now that the pandemic is out of the way, the PIJF is just here to placate us. We'll congratulate ourselves, and move on to the next thing.