Thanks for your post ScottiE, you have clearly put thought and time into it. I don't have as much time to make a thorough reply, but I wanted to acknowledge your post and keep the thread moving.
The first aspect, "What should recreation look like", my underlying point here is that recreation is not important at the moment. Basic exercise and mental health is, but the primary focus is control of the pandemic and the economy. I don't disagree with you regards Sports NZ, more so that I don't think the govt, i.e. the key decision makers, should be wasting any time (meetings, reading reports e