Andrew Dickens Afternoons

Here we are in yet another Monday of decision and it seems that the powerhouse of Auckland is going to remain in lockdown longer yet as the long tail of Covid seems peskily hard to stamp out.Another week, another billion down the drain. Once again last week I heard business advocates asking what's the plan to get out of this. Actually more accurately they want to know when. Well your guess is as good as mine. That's the funny thing about wars and pandemics and the weather. They don't follow arbitrary timelines as defined by humans. The thing is, there always has been a plan. The plan is get everybody vaccinated.  Now I know that’s not much of a plan but that’s the plan.  That’s the only option humans have.  Get vaccinated or lockdown every time hospitalisations overwhelm the health system. It is a great pity the plan did not include the phrase “as fast as possible”.  In the the historical reckoning that will be seen as the government’s greatest mistake.  But it is fair to say we’ve sped up. Businesses want da