Are Governments Really Following the Evidence?

Published 19 Aug 2020

In New Zealand, like in many other countries, the Government is claiming that it is ‘listening to the science’ when it comes to COVID-19.

But when the scientific consensus is that no evidence exists to support such widely-adopted measures as school closures, travel restrictions, and mandatory wearing of masks in public, then is the Government truly ‘listening to the science’, or only hearing what it wants to?

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