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Speaker 1: Now I think I'm encouraged. I think I am anyway

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Speaker 1: by the numbers of submissions into the COVID Inquiry. We

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Speaker 1: remembering this as COVID Inquiry Part two. Submissions close Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Now the Part two is to try and rectify the

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Speaker 1: stitch up that was COVID Part one from the previous

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Speaker 1: government who were determined to set criteria that would not

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Speaker 1: expose the true damage they brought upon most of us.

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Speaker 1: Now thirty one thousand have had their say. This time.

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Speaker 1: It has pointed out they've come from all ages or

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Speaker 1: locations and they were both positive as well as negative.

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Speaker 1: Positive as interesting, I mean, given health New Zealand submitted

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Speaker 1: on whether Wanaker should have a McDonald's do not underestimate

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Speaker 1: the establishment's ability to spend an indecent amount of time

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Speaker 1: and money and putting a best case scenario forward in

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Speaker 1: a but covering exercise. This part of the inquiry looks

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Speaker 1: into masks, mandatesvaxes and lockdowns, and thirty one thousand tells

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Speaker 1: me we are still very much exercised about the historic

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Speaker 1: nature of the event and our keenness to try and

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Speaker 1: come up with something that sees nothing like a repeat

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Speaker 1: of the last exercise and not the other day. Poor

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Speaker 1: old Chris Hopkins still tries to walk that very fine

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Speaker 1: line between admitting they were in charge of a balls

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Speaker 1: up and attending and went mostly well. He's in, of course,

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Speaker 1: an unwinnable place, as the last sap left standing given

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Speaker 1: a Durna Robertson a long gone. He's got the sorry

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Speaker 1: task of defending what really were some astonishingly poor decisions.

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Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean the inquiry will come up with answers.

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Speaker 1: I mean what answers. Answers to what will a pandemic

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Speaker 1: be the same or similar or not similar at all?

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Speaker 1: What sort of government will be in Will that government

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Speaker 1: be competent or experience? What role will the public service play?

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Speaker 1: Will epidemiologists become household names all over again? Will New

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Speaker 1: Zealanders sink into a myopic funk waiting for a leader

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Speaker 1: to tell them what sort of stuffed animal to put

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Speaker 1: in the window. What made last time so bad was

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Speaker 1: the control? And out of the control came the anger

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Speaker 1: and the fear. I'm not sure an inquiry can dictate

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Speaker 1: answers or solutions around emotion, but thirty one thousand submissions

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Speaker 1: tells you the emotion is still very, very real. At

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Speaker 1: least in putting the part two part on, we attempt

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Speaker 1: to recognize how profound those dark and troubled days really were.

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