The COVID period shows a laundry list of Government failing to act efficiently. No country entered the COVID period with better advantages than us. There's a few countries that are more remote. There's some with a younger, more spread-out population. There's some that are more sophisticated, have more wealth and institutions and better healthcare. But no country had the combination of advantages with which New Zealand entered the COVID period. We were told that we went hard and went early when we were the 63rd country to get a case. We were told the policy was test, test, test, when in truth the Government could test only 1,500 a day. We were told that there was no shortage of personal protective equipment when health professionals, including those I represent in Epsom, were on TV every night saying they had none in their hospital. We were told to be kind while absurd rules separated fathers from seeing their firstborn, and even wives from being supported as they miscarried with their supporters outside pacing in the car park. We were told it was illegal to go out when no legal instrument requiring that existed. We were told butchers and greengrocers were dangerous places, but you couldn't catch COVID at a dairy. I have constituents who were told they cannot return to say goodbye to dying loved ones because it's for the public good and yet the Minister of Health said testing the people who work at the border for COVID was a "big lever to pull".