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Speaker 1: So here was the headline to mark the day. We

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Speaker 1: aren't ready. The next pandemic is coming, And in that

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Speaker 1: line of paranoia is everything that was wrong with the

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Speaker 1: five year anniversary, if that's the right word of our

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Speaker 1: first lockdown for COVID, as two commissions have or continue

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Speaker 1: to weighe through any number of submissions at all, a

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Speaker 1: waste of time. There are those who are determined to

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Speaker 1: forecast doom and as such would do exactly the same

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Speaker 1: next time as they did five years ago. I noted

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Speaker 1: Ashley popped up for a bit of a chat told

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Speaker 1: us the bird flues are worry and he should have

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Speaker 1: listened more. I mean, what's that actually mean? Listen more?

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Speaker 1: Does it lead to anything? Of course it doesn't. It's

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Speaker 1: a sop. The epidemiologists who flooded our living rooms would

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Speaker 1: unquestionably be no different than COVID two point zero than

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Speaker 1: they were in the original. In fact, if anything should

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Speaker 1: have come out of twenty twenty in lockdown, it should

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Speaker 1: have been we don't mark anniversaries at all. We shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be allowed to interview either Hopkins or Bloomfield or Adern

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Speaker 1: about COVID. Ever again, hearing them witter is bad for

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Speaker 1: your health. It's triggering one. Report's already out, of course,

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Speaker 1: a reflection ironically of the COVID response itself, limited in scope,

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Speaker 1: a stitch up designed to look like I've had a

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Speaker 1: bit of a look at how we handled it in

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Speaker 1: terms of reference, very much designed not to elicit anything

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Speaker 1: too dramatic. Part two driven by the new government of

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Speaker 1: ghast at Part one scandalous limitations as working away feverishly

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Speaker 1: as we speak. But it doesn't matter what it sees.

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Speaker 1: Nothing will come of it, because as I said from

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Speaker 1: day one, luck is the predetermining factor. Get a government

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Speaker 1: of competence, you stand a chance. Get it the enterlope

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Speaker 1: as we did. You're done for. If I learned anything

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Speaker 1: it's that warnings about doom from the likes of Bloomfield

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Speaker 1: mean little or nothing, and that if any government ever

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Speaker 1: tries half the stuff they did on again, from the

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Speaker 1: pulpit of truth to vaccine mandates to lockdowns for spurious reasons,

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Speaker 1: the reaction will be vastly different. And you didn't need

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Speaker 1: a Commission of inquiry to figure that out. For more

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