Andrew Dickens Afternoons

So look at that: the Pfizer vaccines that we were freaking out about arrived. Not only that, they arrived two days early.So what was all that panic about? We only knew about the potential delay because the Minister told us about it. So why do that?It's because the government is becoming increasingly gun shy. Afraid of negative headlines, they are choosing to pre-empt the bad news to try and mitigate any possible damage. But in this case, they shot themselves in the foot unnecessarily.The public perception is that this vaccine rollout is less than perfect and so the government is defensive.When I said that on social media last week, many supporters of the roll out and the government took issue with me. Our roll out has a 107 per cent success rate, they said.This is true. We are seven per cent ahead of schedule. But that means nothing if the schedule was too slow in the first place. The government is doing exactly what they said they would do but with hindsight we see that was not enough.Today we learn that Oak