The morning's closing of the browser tabs:
- Customs is now seizing 125,000 cigarettes and 155kg loose tobacco per month. Why? "We have the most expensive cigarettes in the world for legal purchase."
- Wastewater testing says highest meth consumption, per capita, is in Kaitaia, Ōpōtiki, Wairoa, Kawerau, Tokoroa and Huntly. Lowest levels were in Kerikeri, Dunedin - Tahuna, Queenstown, Wellington - Karori, and Greymouth.
- Robert MacCulloch on the mediocrity-bias in the public service.
- Robert MacCulloch wonders why NZ didn't just pay more to get vaccines faster. Asking this on Twitter always generates a pile of replies from Labour-stans, but come on. We're continually vying with Australia for worst in the developed world.
- Oh - and if we wanted to get vaccinated faster, first doses of AZ followed by second doses of Pfizer seem to work a treat.
- The Industrial Revolution? Look first to the prior agricultural revolution enabling the population growth that allowed for the division of labour and for time spent in discovery.
- Ayn Rand's worst idea: moral intolerance. Seems popular though.
- The NZ residence application queue is awful. Almost 30,000 people whose applications are "waiting to be allocated for processing". They suspended processing of Expressions of Interest under the Skilled Migrant Category because of Covid. But piles of those people are already here. They wouldn't need to come in through MIQ. Surely Immigration NZ could give them an answer.
- MBIE and DoC have a new tourism data portal. There's a ton of stuff in there. Some of it hasn't updated since covid, like employment in tourism.
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