Opinion

COVID-19 shows us big fixes need big ideas

By Denis Moriarty
Updated July 2 2021 - 12:26am, first published February 28 2021 - 7:00pm
POSSIBILITIES: Now's the time to consider what problems we might solve if we tackled them like we have COVID. Picture: Shutterstock
POSSIBILITIES: Now's the time to consider what problems we might solve if we tackled them like we have COVID. Picture: Shutterstock

Back in the early days of COVID, when there was still a mainstream audience for claims of beat-up and overreaction, people who didn't want to encourage any more government spending used to point out that flu killed lots of people every year and we didn't make a fuss about that.

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