PremiumAnalysisAnalysis byDerek ChengSenior Writer·NZ Herald·29 Jul, 2026 10:00 PM4 mins to readDerek Cheng is a Multimedia Journalist for the New Zealand Herald. He values holding those in power to account and shining a light on issues kept in the dark.There’s an oft-repeated phrase in the fine print of the Government’s report responding to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Covid pandemic.It essentially says that, yes, implementing this recommendation would be fantastic in an ideal world, but that world presupposes infinite resources the Government doesn’t have.
When Covid
