'Like asking the country to wear a funny hat': Sam Morgan on CovidCard

'Like asking the country to wear a funny hat': Sam Morgan on CovidCard
Pattrick Smellie
Sam Morgan gets it.There are plenty of things about his CovidCard initiative that strike natural resistance."It's like asking the country to wear a funny hat," he tells BusinessDesk, a day after abandoning any further work with the Ministry of Health on a wearable Bluetooth-enabled card that he fervently believes would massively improve New Zealand's current covid contact tracing systems."At one level, it's totally preposterous, almost Orwellian," says Morgan of the notion that every New Zealander would wear a tr...

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