{"id":50968,"date":"2022-12-07T22:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/08\/a-royal-commission-gives-new-zealand-a-chance-to-reckon-with-what-covid-did-to-us"},"modified":"2022-12-07T22:00:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T13:00:24","slug":"a-royal-commission-gives-new-zealand-a-chance-to-reckon-with-what-covid-did-to-us-henry-cooke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50968","title":{"rendered":"A royal commission gives New Zealand a chance to reckon with what Covid did to us | Henry Cooke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand needs a robust debate about the success of its elimination strategy in 2020, and the messy failure in late 2021<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to describe just how good New Zealand felt as summer began at the end of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Aotearoa had seemingly got through the pandemic unscathed, relying on a zero-Covid or \u201celimination\u201d strategy. We had been in alert level 1 since October, meaning there were no real restrictions on daily life, with huge music festivals and parties going ahead while much of the western world was still struggling with lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/08\/a-royal-commission-gives-new-zealand-a-chance-to-reckon-with-what-covid-did-to-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand needs a robust debate about the success of its elimination strategy in 2020, and the messy failure in late 2021It\u2019s hard to describe just how good New Zealand felt as summer began at the end of 2020.Aotearoa had seemingly got through the pa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,914,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50969,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50968\/revisions\/50969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}