Time to innovate

It’s time for New Zealand to become much more innovative in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

There are so many items that we are short of because they have to be imported. Sure we are a small market, but we make vaccines. We make stainless steel wares to the world’s best tolerances. We have food sources to die for. The world is waiting for our initiative and innovation!

Here’s just one example: science has discovered the most successful treatment for agerelated dementia is a combination of blueberry extract with grapeseed extract. The combined compounds are able to pass through the blood/brain barrier and remove the tangles of amyloid plaques that accumulate and obstruct normal processes of communication.

Early tests have shown a 90 per cent success rate.

We can grow the best blueberries, grapeseed is a plentiful by-product and we have scientific expertise to produce supplements to the highest clinical grades. We only have the vengeance of the pharmaceutical industry to fear.

Our food products have higher nutrient values than the exhausted soils of Europe and North America can produce, and we can produce them outdoors.

We need to demonstrate this to the world with appropriate publicity.

As long as we are able to avoid the over-regulation and red tape of big government, and the Green propensity for shooting ourselves in the foot, we will stand out like a beacon while the rest of the world is recovering from the slump to come.

Chris Purdon, Ha¯ wera