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Speaker 1: The overarching view of the British COVID inquiry, this is profound.

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Speaker 1: Actually it should have got more coverage here. The overarching

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Speaker 1: view of the British COVID inquiry is that lockdowns did

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Speaker 1: not need to happen, So their inquiry is different to

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Speaker 1: our two. For a start, the key players turned up

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Speaker 1: Boris and Co. Got grilled Adernal Hepkins and Co. Never

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Speaker 1: did because they refused. It still seems to me in

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Speaker 1: an astonishing act of arrogance that the same people who

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Speaker 1: made such profound decisions on our lives refused to participate

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Speaker 1: in a public way at the official look into the

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Speaker 1: way they acted. It's a version of moral bankruptcy if

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Speaker 1: you ask me. Also different in Britain is that it

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Speaker 1: was adversarial, a mistake. I think that we didn't take

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Speaker 1: the same approach that they did. Also, it appears our

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Speaker 1: inquiry Part two is at least got some issues at

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Speaker 1: the moment, with a number of resignations, so who knows

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Speaker 1: how ours pans out. It is due to be released

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Speaker 1: our first thing in the new year. But although the

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Speaker 1: British report says much, it's inescapable that a major observation

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Speaker 1: is if the British government had got its act together fast.

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Speaker 1: If it had been more coordinated, lockdowns were not necessary.

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Speaker 1: Now just think about that for a moment and apply it.

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Speaker 1: Here are lockdowns here started, by the way, pretty much

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Speaker 1: on the exact same day they did in Britain, March

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty. If the British hadn't got their aact

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Speaker 1: together and we were locking down in March, then surely

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Speaker 1: it could be argued the same applies to us. Right, Obviously,

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Speaker 1: their lockdowns will nowhere near as hard as ours, and

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Speaker 1: that's another mass failing on the control freaks like Aderna Hopkins.

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Speaker 1: But just think about how COVID would have been, our

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Speaker 1: view of that period would have been if a lockdown

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Speaker 1: had not been part of that experience. Masks rules, contact tracing,

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Speaker 1: vaccine's respiratory hygiene could have stopped the need for lockdown.

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Speaker 1: That's the British conclusion. It's pretty profound, don't you think

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Speaker 1: profound for mental health and the economy. Think of the

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Speaker 1: ensuing years, years long damage that came out of lockdowns,

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Speaker 1: especially the Auckland once months on end of lockdowns, jobs lost,

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Speaker 1: lives lost, recession after recession for something that quite possibly

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Speaker 1: we didn't even need to do. I can't see if

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Speaker 1: they can conclude it in Britain, how we can't conclude

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Speaker 1: something similar here, same virus, same approach, same outcome, same mistakes.

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Speaker 1: It is a failing. Do you not think of historic proportions?

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