What? No one's recommending injecting disinfectant, the goto of panicky reactionary authoritarians.
Auckland goes in lockdown after 1 new Covid-19 case found
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Very happy. We'll be back to normal in a week, or two. No restrictions except masks on public transport and border controls. It's great.
Much of Europe, the UK in particular did much the same as the US, playing at lockdown. The results are similar in the UK and the US.
Well, we're not pleased with the family/people who have exacerbated this outbreak by breaking very clear instructions, but people will do people things. We're pleased with Jacinda's and the health system's attention to the outbreak.
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By sacrificing our free dumbs for short periods we've had our freedom for most of the year...we've felt this free, and will again in a short while.
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blackhawk
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From the DTMBro link
japantoday.com
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The case that prompted the shutdown was a person who had been infectious and out in the community for a week. Two more locally transmitted cases were subsequently reported over the weekend, but no new cases were reported on Monday.
Ardern said on Monday the person who sparked the lockdown had made "multiple mistakes", after public anger at reports the person had made contact with an infected family during lockdown and had visited public venues after taking a COVID test.
"It has had devastating consequences, no question," Ardern told Newshub's "The AM Show", adding that any punishment was up to the police.
"People do dumb things but we're not going to get through this if people pillory them to the point they do not tell the truth," she said.
New Zealand has reported just over 2,000 cases of the coronavirus and 26 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
Lockdown costing Auckland businesses NZ$30 mil per day, says mayor
The mayor of Auckland called for residents to be prioritized for COVID-19 vaccines after New Zealand's biggest city was thrown into its fourth pandemic lockdown over the weekend. The seven-day lockdown imposed by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on a city of 2 million was prompted by just a single new…
japantoday.com
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The case that prompted the shutdown was a person who had been infectious and out in the community for a week. Two more locally transmitted cases were subsequently reported over the weekend, but no new cases were reported on Monday.
Ardern said on Monday the person who sparked the lockdown had made "multiple mistakes", after public anger at reports the person had made contact with an infected family during lockdown and had visited public venues after taking a COVID test.
"It has had devastating consequences, no question," Ardern told Newshub's "The AM Show", adding that any punishment was up to the police.
"People do dumb things but we're not going to get through this if people pillory them to the point they do not tell the truth," she said.
New Zealand has reported just over 2,000 cases of the coronavirus and 26 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
NZ nipped it in the bud...They did not wait until the flowers bloomed, before locking down....
blackhawk
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Maybe but the fact remains there is no such thing as a one size fits all policy. Every country and state are different what works for one won’t necessarily work for another.
Our lockdowns have been desperation lockdowns, when our hospitals are ready to break from all the cases....
New Zealand's lockdowns, have been to stop the virus..... ours are Willy nilly, to just slow the rapid spread of the virus....which is merely a temporary gester, from desperation....
New Zealand's lockdowns, have been to stop the virus..... ours are Willy nilly, to just slow the rapid spread of the virus....which is merely a temporary gester, from desperation....
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We used to play freeze in school as well. Someone would yell "Freeze"! and the first person to move lost.
In fact, if I remember right, the kid that always won was from New Zealand.
Coincidence?
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I did absolutely no such thing whatsoever. Take a breath.
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I want to say it's shocking and sad to me that I have to explain why it's absolute insanity to be shutting down a city of 1.5 million people over one person being sick with a virus with a less than 1% fatality rate, but honestly, given the asshattery I've seen from the general public over the past year, it really isn't.
Honest to God, you people deserve despotism.
I do think it's nuts!!!
Especially since this one person's actions could have been traced, and most all of the people he came in contact with in the same space for more than 10 minutes could have been notified to isolate or go get a test...
Part of their concern was that the dude also went and attended super packed venues, with lots and lots of others.....
But they could have just made public announcements for those attending those events to curb their activities or go get a covid test instead of shutting down all 30 million Aussie dollars a day in city revenue...or whatever the heck the mayor says it is....
Yes, it does seem nuts!!
But, keeping an opened mind, look at what we have had to spend on covid relief, around $6Trillon dollars!!!
It would be interesting to see how much their economy was hurt, compared to our economy, and what kind of covid relief money their taxes had to pay for, compared to ours, as a percentage.
No, those states played at lockdown. Like the UK and other states in the US. People weren't paid to stay at home, public transport still ran for the public, what sort of lockdown is that?
Right. This is CATO for gods' sakes...
2020
Human Freedom Index
The jurisdictions that took the top 10 places, in order, were New Zealand, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Denmark, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Estonia, and Germany and Sweden (tied in 9th place). Selected countries rank as follows: Japan (11), the United Kingdom and the United States (tied in 17th place), Taiwan (19), South Korea (26), Chile (30), France (33), South Africa (68), Argentina (70), Mexico (86), Brazil (88), Kenya (93), India (111), Russia (115), Turkey (119), China (129), Saudi Arabia (151), Egypt (157), Iran (158), Venezuela (160), and Syria (162).
NoNukes
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They have been one of the few countries successful against covid, and people want to criticize them.That’s how you squash it quickly. New Zealand has been massless and back to normal because they didn’t have cases for a while nowBecause of one new case...... one........
This is what happens when you put the Branch Covidians in charge. I sure hope New Zealanders are still happy with their PM choice.
New Zealand's largest city goes into lockdown after 1 new Covid-19 case found
"We are in the unfortunate but necessary position to protect Aucklanders again," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.www.nbcnews.com
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