Policy inaction was not an option and social mobility has been dramatically curtailed as a result. In Aotearoa, New Zealand, we have now been living in this constrained world for a year.
The level of social restrictions has fluctuated with our COVID Alert Levels – as we have seen in the events of this week – between the extremes of being one of the most mobility-constrained societies on the planet to one of the most free (Figures 1 and 2). As citizens, our economic fortune has been closely linked to these actions.