Diversion tactics
Somewhere in the annals of the bureaucracy, shielded from Official Information Act requests, there is almost certainly a health-policy document entitled “Codeword: Squirrel!”
A cynic might suspect the Government’s recent decision to confer the authority to fluoridate water upon the Director-General of Health, taking it away from local councils, is intended as a diversion. Get anti-vaxxers’ eyeballs to swivel away from the Covid vaccine programme, even for a bit, and they’ll have less time to prey on the vaccine-hesitant.
Let’s hope the cynic is right and the tactic succeeds.
Notwithstanding the temporary burst of joy at finally having a travel bubble, these are times
