@CheekyHobson more fake news. 9000 rooms per 28 days www.mbie.govt.nz/business-and-employment/economic-development/covid-19-data-resources/managed-isolation-and-quarantine-data/miq-capacity-and-allocations/ at current capacity is something less than 2250 allowing for cleaning in between.
If you wanted a specialist MIQ facility that would have a) eliminated the risk of virus getting into the community and b) afforded more NZers to come here, you would have needed to at least match the existing hotel-based capacity of 9000 rooms per month. Yes, some of those room spaces might have been one physical space that was used for two isolation periods (therefore counting as two rooms) but due to isolation extensions when infections appear, many would be used only once in a month. So at minimum you'd want to build 6000 of the individual cabins you speak of to match the capacity that was needed, more if you wanted to increase capacity.
Many of these rooms are NOT fit for purpose, and there have been outbreaks as a result of them.
What would be more accurate to say is that hotel rooms were not ideally fit for purpose and there were a small number of outbreaks but in comparison to the difficulty of building a massive facility that would remove any need for city-based accommodation, it was an acceptable compromise.
Victoria in Australia, which has identical winter average temperatures to Auckland (and less hospitable temperatures in the summer)
Ohakea isn't Auckland but okay.
has built a quarantine facility that could surge to those numbers within 1 month from now, and they started work in September. The project only got the green light in July www.vic.gov.au/victorian-quarantine-hub.
I can't find any evidence to suggest that this proposed project – which has been described as a $200-million "white elephant" –has actually delivered a single one of the 1000 expected beds (beds, not rooms) and probably never will given that MIQ is now over in Australia. But even 1000 rooms wouldn't have eliminated the need for hotel-based accommodation during the time it was needed as 1000 is woefully short of the capacity needed.
Also, take a quick look at Ohakea on Google Maps and let me know where I might find the large piece of flat land that your enormous proposed NZ facility would have needed. The Victorian one was proposed for Commonwealth land (which Australia has a fair bit more of than NZ). Ohakea air-base is sited in the middle of a large area of privately owned farmland. Public land further away is largely hilly and hard to build on. There's no flat government-owned land nearby (other than the actual airbase, which wouldn't accommodate a project of this size).
Also, while we're discussing ways in which you are wrong--in the three years prior to leaving NZ, I went exactly nowhere due to my financial situation. Not that it should matter, because if I had I would still have been a New Zealander, just as you are.
No idea what point you're trying to make here. You have been moaning that you haven't been able to holiday in NZ more than once during the pandemic. My point was that holidaying overseas once in two years is regarded as normal life for many people. If you understand that, great, stop moaning.
Your parochialism and lack of imagination about lives other than your own and solutions other than exactly what NZ has achieved only serve to exacerbate the fiction that New Zealand is a brainwashed, totalitarian state. I'll not engage with you further, because you clearly have a fixed mindset and there is no point.
Turning to wild insults is usually the last resort of those who lack logic. Imagination is great, sure, but practicality is an essential part of actually getting thing done.
It seems to me that your imagination stops at the point of "Hey how about this for an idea?" and doesn't extend to "Okay, how would we actually achieve that?"