Originally Posted by
Blue Skies
Hey Lew, apologies, I misinterpretted what you meant & should have been more careful with my choice of words.
It's just I get a little irritated seeing comments on here blaming the govt for being asleep at the wheel & at the other extreme for over reacting, politicising the whole thing when we know it's extremely complicated, working on incomplete information, & any action or response comes with a cost just as doing nothing also has big risks.
Ministers are taking best advice from public health experts, walking a fine line between protecting us from an outbreak while trying not to antagonise our main trading partner & cripple the economy. Impossible, opposing goals!
Anyway this hot weather diabolical, little sleep, feeling a bit grumpy this morning, hope there's no hard feelings.
BTW surely our govt hasn't blocked the logs? I wouldn't know but assumed that was from China?
(Just read in the Gisborne Herald, the reason exporters have stopped buying logs is because there's not enough people at work in the ports in China to unload them from the ships when they arrive, due the Chinese govt extending the New Year shut down period. Nothing to do with our govt. )