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She was a kind, empathetic leader and was great at uniting the country in crisis... multiple times.
Unfortunately she was distinctly average as a stable environment politician. Wouldn't want her as PM now but would be great if we could hire her out on call when everything does hit the fan again.
I worked at a Sydney airport shop years ago and she would come through our area from time to time. She was approachable, easy to talk to and despite having big spooky security guys around, was happy to just go shopping and wait for her flight.
The Fijian PM at the time used to come through, crack jokes, run up a bill and then jokingly ask one of his security guys to buy all the stuff for him. He was a really funny bloke and he made our day.
Jacinda Adern wasn't just a good leader for New Zealand, she was a good leader for the world in the covid crisis. She's the reason several of my elderly relatives are still alive. Under Boris Johnson, the UK policy was initially "herd immunity" which basically means wait till everyone gets infected and then those that survive will be immune and it'll stop spreading and die out.
They actually moved covid patients from hospitals into care homes, which seems stupid on the face of it, but was at least consistent in persuing the maximum death policy. The Conservatives had heard that non white people, poor people, people with preexisting health conditions (who cost a lot in the UK's free health care system) and elderly people (who cost a lot in state pensions and state supported places in care homes) we're worst affected. I think they saw whole scale death as a cost cutting measure and we're never fans of ethnic minority folk or poor folk.
Anyway, along comes Jacinda Adern and implements lockdowns and travel restrictions and it works and it's seem as sensible, then the Scottish leader at the time, Nicola Sturgeon, does the lockdown thing and it's seem as responsible and then a fortnight later, Boris Johnson does it for England and Wales. We might not have abandoned our death first policy of it weren't for the international leadership of Jacinda Adern.
Meanwhile, Boris copied another policy from abroad where you give vast sums of picnic money to drug companies to jump the queue on vaccines. This worked out well for us and was the best thing he ever did in his entire self-serving lying life. Of course he lied about it by claiming that being in the EU would have prevented it (it didn't, and a few EU states went their own way on vaccines, facts never got in the way of what Boris wanted to say).
The whole VIP lane for masks and gowns, if you didn't hear about it was the most bold faced corruption enabling scheme the UK has done in my life. No tendering process, no checks, no process, you don't even have to be in a related industry, just, and I'm not kidding or exaggerating at all, literally if your company was recommended by a conservative mp, they were in the VIP lane and the government would order as much equipment as your company claimed you could supply. Guess what happened!
Anyway, I'll always be grateful to Jacinda Adern. I credit her with not losing any close relatives to covid.