Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2022 23:00:11 +0000
Subject: FW: Your OIA Request - A Response
From: "Information [DPMC]" <[DPMC request email]>
To: "Casey Taylor [DPMC]" <[email address]>




-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Nimmo <[FYI request #18687 email]>
Sent: Sunday, 27 March 2022 1:59 pm
To: Information [DPMC] <[DPMC request email]>
Subject: Re: Your OIA Request - A Response

Dear Information [DPMC],

You have not released any information related to my actual question on the page indicated in your response. Indeed, there have been no 'proactive releases' related to the ban on face coverings that are at least as efficacious as non-medical masks in 2022.

I see, however, that you have on Friday posted a 'response' sent in 2020, which you never actually sent to me, claiming that it is responsive to my inquiry.
https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/response-official-information-act-request-oia-202021-0214-request-relating-covid-19
This then links to the following WHO advice, which explicitly does not discourage the use of more effective bandannas and other face coverings as opposed to rudimentary non-medical masks.
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/advice-on-the-use-of-masks-in-the-community-during-home-care-and-in-healthcare-settings-in-the-context-of-the-novel-coronavirus-(2019-ncov)-outbreak

This is obviously not a minimally adequate response to my inquiry. I don't know if you're stupid, lazy, or maliciously non-compliant, but I will have to consider the latter if you don't send an actual response by the close of business tomorrow.

Yours sincerely,
Jeremy Nimmo

-----Original Message-----





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 Kia ora koe,



 Please see the attached letter regarding your recent OIA request.



 Ngā mihi,



 Ministerial Coordinator
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 Strategy, Governance and Engagement
 Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet  E    [1][DPMC request email]


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