Orr else
Nov 29, 2020
4 minutes
JANE CLIFTON
Here’s a novelty Christmas gift idea: a weather house barometer with a tiny Ashley Bloomfield that comes out when it’s fine and safe and a wee Adrian Orr that pops out when it’s wild and stormy.
The smile/frown alternation of the Director-General of Health and the Reserve Bank Governor pretty much sums up our politics these days. Bloomfield tells us most days how our pandemic containment is going, which is generally a sunny outlook, and Orr tells us what he’s doing to protect the economy from Covid’s ravages, which is more a “brace for tornadoes” theme.
With every economist and taxi driver pelting
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