What it does is continue and perpetuate the Fortress New Zealand mentality that underpins this Government's COVID response. Even despite the changes in terms of vaccination, it continues the idea that we can be locked away in splendid isolation for ever. It reflects a world in which the Government cannot move on from elimination, which failed. It reflects a world in which the Government is psychologically incapable of acknowledging that elimination failed, they didn't have a back-up plan, and we have to move to suppression, and it reflects a world that's actually quite scary. 