26 November 2021
Response
From Rotorua Deputy Mayor Dave Donaldson:
“The message remains the same – please, for your own protection, the protection of whānau and others, and for the protection of our economy and people’s jobs, get vaccinated! If you already are, awesome, but do what you can to encourage others to do the same.
We do not want to get stuck in red when the new ‘traffic lights’ system kicks in – that will be to the detriment of our wellbeing as well as our economy. So we absolutely have to do whatever we can to get our vaccination rates up to enable us to have the freedoms we want and need and to ensure as few restrictions as possible for businesses and events.
I think we all want to look forward to a summer of freedom and to be able to attend the events we love.
It is encouraging to see from the data that the majority of people are at least on the way to being fully vaccinated. The data will also help the DHB and others working hard to increase our vaccination rates to identify the hard-to-reach who they need to focus on.”
NOTE: Dave is happy for you to know, and say if you think it’s relevant to your story, that he is fully vaccinated and is booked in for his booster shot pre Xmas.