OPINION: Eighty days out from the election, the pandemic is unquestionably political, a powder keg without precedent. Navigating through the curveballs the Covid-19 crisis has thrown up presents risks and rewards in equal measure for the Government. Wrestling with the economic convulsion throttling New Zealand is a daunting enough task with unknown consequences, but guarding against community spread of Covid-19 poses is an equally herculean assignment. We have dodged a major bullet, with no evidence of renewed community spread stemming from the ropy state of the Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) system earlier this month. Ahead of September 19, the spectre of renewed community spread would be political kryptonite.

Source: Stuff June 29, 2020 16:52 UTC