'We can't keep telling people just to stay away from the beach'

Dr Bones write-up

Streetlight over cracked concrete, newsroom monitors buzzing, and this one drops on the deck: "'We can't keep telling people just to stay away from the beach'" from RNZ.

Wellington mayor Andrew Little says the council and health authorities have to be practical and realistic. A rāhui is in place on the southern coast from Ōwhiro Bay to Breaker Bay, which covers anything the water touches or can touch with the high or low tides. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rills

The incentive stack is familiar: attention-first framing, policy or budget decisions second, and cleanup costs last.

Verdict: NOT BONES 🪦 — inputs are thin or incentives outrun evidence. Keep your bearings tight and your ribcage receipts tighter.

Sane operator move: set a 30/90-day checkpoint, track one hard metric and one human-impact metric, and publish the misses before the victory laps.

Lil Bones: "I hear this run and I’m still grinding rails till the bearings scream."