I’ve gotten sick and tired of hearing the “hard and early” slogan from the Prime Minister.
So, I decided to create an interactive timeline of key events to see if we really did go “hard and early”. Click on any event to see further details.
As you will be able to see New Zealand wasn’t that early and it certainly wasn’t hard. We kept very lax or no controls on our borders until just days before the lockdown.
What is very obvious was that the Government appeared to be holding off so that the March 15 commemorations could be held, with a very obvious and long delay in announcing cases up between 6 March and 13 March.
Have a scroll through and if you think I’ve missed a key event then pop it in the comments and I will add them during the day.