Andrew Dickens Afternoons

Here we are with lockdown's popping up across Australasia. The Delta variant is causing some havoc amongst two nations universally praised for their handling of Covid over the past 16 months. Two nations who on the whole went hard and early and reaped the harvest of return. Much to the globe's jealousy, we opened one of the first and most successful travel bubbles. We've been smug about our full stadiums and enjoying concerts and the ability to keep a large part of our domestic economies functioning. But all that sways in the balance today. And one of the reasons our two nations are here is because we lag much of our comparable countries of the world in vaccinations. Much has been made that we are last of 122 OECD nations in the vaccination table, and that’s true, but the Prime Minister is also right when saying that table is based on the number of first shots given. On fully vaccinated figures, we do a little better.  As of this morning just 7.8 per cent of New Zealand has had two shots. The global average i