You are about to see, if we haven’t already, that the border is leaking, and that the measures in place aren’t up to it and never were.

A maintenance worker at one of the hotels has Covid. This case isn’t linked to the mess that has the country in level 3 and 2. According to the minister of health, they would not have had contact with guests.

Which, of course, begs the question, how does he have Covid? All the government can say is it’s a mystery. Isn’t everything, conveniently, a mystery?

The man was tested on the 13^th as part of routine testing. The routine testing only came into being because of the mess that got exposed last week.

Ask yourself: if the government hadn’t been caught out, would this bloke have been tested in routine testing if there wasn’t routine testing?

The government still insist that operations at these hotels is water tight, and yet i think most of us who have followed this will have seen the photos sent in by guests that show no social distancing no PPE, no gloves, no masks.

We once again ask the question why aren’t we running quarantine like Australia is? You are in your room, you don’t leave, military are in the hallways - full stop.

Sort of like we asked why don’t we round Covid positive cases up and stick them in quarantine, remember that last week? Bloomfield said we round up sheep, not people; later that afternoon, they round up people.

So make no mistake; the hotels are loose, and the trouble has just started.

Add also the growing and yes entirely predictable outcry over air crew who get to fly into the country, get next to no medical attention, then head home and then back to work. If you think that system isn’t fraught, your name’s probably Chris Hipkins.

Hipkins and Bloomfield were asked at the 1pm briefing yesterday about those rules and regulations. Neither had an answer or knew any detail of them. Ask yourself why.

This entire exercise from start to now has been piecemeal, its whack a mole as problem after problem, cock up after cock up is exposed.

Everything is retrospective, everything has a chase your tail feel to it. What we are seeing is we are being led by kindly yet largely bureaucratic incompetents –Bloomfield, Hipkins and Clark before him – who aren’t up to it, and they are led by a prime minister who isn’t across detail or interested in it, and trusts officialdom to a dangerous extent.

If they knew what they were doing, we wouldn’t be where we are in.