Tim Dower: Opening the borders is throwing the towel in on complete elimination

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Aug 12, 2021 · 2m

The Government's decision to start opening the border in the New Year is either a complete flip-flop or a deliberate tactic to scare us into getting vaccinated.

For the past 18 months, the strategy has been to keep Covid out, whatever the cost.

We've endured a total national lockdown, regional restrictions, worker shortages, family unable to come home and so on.

And at the beginning, most of us were freaked out enough by what was happening overseas to go along with it.

As time has gone on, people's willingness to go along with it has worn thin.

We're over it.

A lot of us will be very happy to…