It should not have been like this. It should not have been this hard. The Government had 18 months to prepare, to come up with solutions, and they squandered it, and, unfortunately, Waikato residents have been let down by this Government's lack of planning for the vaccination roll-out or for preparing for any range of different scenarios that might have happened, dealing with different alert levels across different regions—all those things hadn't been prepared for. Waikato residents have been let down by this Government's lack of understanding for the impact and the breadth of scenarios that could be presented, the complexities of everyday life and businesses. 