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“Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents Poor Performance”
Stephen Keague, author.
When you have a plan, you can implement it. If you plan to drive to Wellington, you can study Google Maps, evaluate the different routes, get everyone strapped in with snacks and bottles of water, activate the know-it-all voice of that annoying electronic woman, and off you go. By following her directions, ignoring the backseat kerfuffles, and providing multiple comfort stops, you will arrive in Wellington. Just not through Transmission Gully.
Without planning, you may well end up enjoying the beautiful views from Cape Reinga. Beautiful – but a long way from Wellington, and the treats and water will have long since run out.
The lack of planning is why this shambles of the unplanned and uncoordinated ‘Covid response’ is where it is. Look at vaccination rates. Didn’t they start at a 70% target? Then leap to 90%, and now, against all common sense, we have arrived at 100%. It is a ridiculous goal set by a government that is out of ideas.
“I know, let’s put it up again. It hasn’t worked at 70, 80 or 90%, so let’s put it up to 100%.”
What? Some countries have opened up again at 70%. But our PM is marching to the beat of a different drummer.
I appreciate that Covid is a new battle to fight, but had the government had a vaccination plan, they could simply have said at the outset: the vaccine will be mandatory. I’m not at all fond of this approach because the Bill of Rights says I have control over my body and what I do to it. Except – I don’t. Not any more. Not if I want to enjoy the simple pleasures of life. Like seeing my family. From a starting position of this will be voluntary, we are now in a place where it will, in all likelihood, become mandatory across the board. Meantime we have travelled to Wellington via Cape Reinga, while we have meandered around the country never quite knowing where we were, with increasingly disgruntled cries from the back seat.
In a Newshub article, 19 October, the tetchy Phil Goff, Mayor of Auckland, said he would “force hesitant people to be vaccinated.” He went on to say, “the price must be paid for not getting vaccinated, …there need to be consequences.”
There may very well be consequences, as we have no idea what the ‘vaccine’ is doing to us and what it will do to future generations however, this is not what he is referring to. He means that the unvaccinated, never mind their reasons, will be punished. Their access to hospitality and events will be limited, and public-facing and other employment opportunities will not be possible.
Mayor Goff, whose city remains in the purgatory of lock down (and I have the utmost sympathy for its population), is just one of many saying precisely the same thing, and I use him here as an example. He does, he says, want to “encourage” the recalcitrant while they are being forced. That sounds to me like telling the kids they can have ice cream when they have eaten their broccoli. It doesn’t work for broccoli, and it won’t work for vaccination. Unless they hold the last of the unvaccinated down and forcibly inject them. And Mayor Goff’s threat of ‘forcing’ people does carry that overtone.
If the government had had a plan, a stated strategy, of say 80% (Pareto’s Principle can apply here; as Woody Allen said, 80% of success is showing up), we would have been able to plan for that. And it would have been the government’s job to plan the how, when and most crucially, why, and to take the population with them as they implemented the plan.
We would have likely achieved that and been able to move on to eat our ice cream. But instead, we lurch from one stated percentage to another and it is now at an impossible 100%.
So the country continues to be held hostage with daily life suspended indefinitely, for what will in all likelihood become a requirement for every one of us.
Will they then get their 100%, or will unvaccinated outlaws hide behind rocky buttresses? It will not be a voluntary issue as the government originally stated. They may well make it law. If that is what they were going to do from the outset, why didn’t they plan that and tell us?
In the words of Blackadder:
“Am I jumping the gun, Baldrick, or are the words ‘I have a cunning plan’ marching with ill-deserved confidence in the direction of this conversation?”
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