Why the wait?

Newshub reports:

The Government is throwing open the borders, first to Kiwis then foreigners. Australia is first, with double vaccinated Kiwis there able to come home from 11:59pm on January 6. 

Kiwis in other countries will be welcome from February 13, and fully vaccinated foreigners can come to New Zealand from April 30. 

Why in God’s name do NZers who have been double vaccinated have to wait almost three more months to be able yo travel home?

Public health experts have told us that they pose less risk to us, than NZers already here.

Labour is the grinch who stole Christmas, from Kiwi families who are seperated.

The latest Newshub-Reid Research poll asked: “Should double vaccinated, negative-tested returning Kiwis be allowed to skip MIQ and isolate at home?”

A very strong majority, 73.1 percent, said yes. Just 19.8 percent said no, and very few didn’t know. 

So only one in five back Labour’s policy.

“That is the sort of thing that could potentially see an exponential growth in cases,” Hipkins said. “As we do this, there’ll be significantly more movement at the border.”

As not a single vaccinated traveler from Australia has tested positive in the last three months, and we already have 4,000 active cases of Covid-19 here, talking of an exponential growth in cases is hysterical bullshit.