Originally Posted by
Poet
Well, that's true up to a point, but there is an argument, and a very strong one IMO, that we should allow Omicron to circulate freely in order to provide us with immunity against the next iteration of covid which could be far more deadly.
Hopefully when the government finally gets back from their summer holidays, we can get a steer on what the plan is from here.
IMO, we are due an explanation as to why they delayed the start of the 4 month boosters until 5th January rather than getting on with it immediately the decision was made. Also, why bookings can't be taken until 17 January (surely not because programmers on summer holidays). I doubt the PR machine will provide answers though.
At the end of the day (and probably much much sooner) Omicron will be raging through anyway as the MIQ systems won't be competent to keep it out, and there's no way NZ will accept going back to hard lockdown