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was listening to the nine to noon politics slot from Monday, and probably daydreaming cos it was pretty boring and quite nasty but anyway, I digress. Was thinking about Megan Woods being put in charge and what that could mean
We know that the number of people returning to New Zealand is increasing, probably in large part due to our success in eliminating community transmission and reopening the economy up largely as it was before. Who wouldn’t want to come back?
I have lots of friends who live overseas, mainly ending up in the UK, who I assumed would never come back to NZ. But maybe now they’ll rethink that? Especially with young families.
There are estimated to be more than 1 million kiwis who live overseas. 600,000 of them in Australia, who would likely stay there, but maybe the disease will spike and they will change their mind. But if even 10% of those people want to come home, our border control will struggle
and given that there isn’t an end in sight for Coronavirus, maybe it is time to start thinking about semi-permanent, state-built and state-run quarantine facilities?
delays around the RMA could be bypassed because of the state of emergency. We start building apartment isolation centres in Auckland and Christchurch. Worst case, we will need them for 2 or 3 years (or longer)
best case though, Corona starts to abate worldwide in 6 months or so, and we can start releasing the apartment as genuinely affordable apartments
either way, we’d build the infrastructure we need to deal with the influx of people who have a right to be in this country, and increase our housing stock to accomodate 50,000 - 100,000 in a short space of time. It’s win win
