Choices that matter are often hard. That is one of the messages of Matthew Hooton’s lengthy column in the Herald this morning, which people really should read if you possibly can. It isn’t that Hooton is saying anything particularly new, but he is putting it firmly in a contemporary New Zealand context. He poses the choices around handling the coronavirus pandemic as primarily those for the Prime Minister (and Cabinet), but really we should think of them as choices for New Zealanders as a whole, for which elected leaders – none of whom here was seriously chosen for their ability to confront the gravest crisis in many many decades – really should primarily be there to facilitate and articulate, but perhaps help shape too, our collective view; the choices we wish to make on matters that affect life and death – perhaps for many – and the functioning of our…
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