"Against all odds: how New Zealand is bending the Delta curve"
NZ's zero covid strategy appears to be working, again. They're close to being able to let life go back to old normal after their short but super duper strict lockdown.
Total Deaths: 27. theguardian.com/world/2021/sep…
NZ's zero covid strategy appears to be working, again. They're close to being able to let life go back to old normal after their short but super duper strict lockdown.
Total Deaths: 27. theguardian.com/world/2021/sep…
It's a really simple trade off.
New Zealanders get to live a domestic life free of restrictions. No masks, social distancing, limits on gatherings etc. Meet anyone, do anything.
But international travel is basically out (except in very narrow circumstances).
Total deaths: 27.
New Zealanders get to live a domestic life free of restrictions. No masks, social distancing, limits on gatherings etc. Meet anyone, do anything.
But international travel is basically out (except in very narrow circumstances).
Total deaths: 27.
Another benefit (beyond the human factor of not killing people, or leaving them devastated by Long Covid): New Zealand is almost unique among advanced economies in that its economy grew in 2020.
Why? Because domestic economic activity wasn't affected, aside from tourism.
Why? Because domestic economic activity wasn't affected, aside from tourism.
It's an eye-watering contrast.
New Zealand: goal is zero covid.
UK: goal is to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed by covid (after stretching its capacity to the maximum by delaying millions of procedures).
New Zealand: goal is zero covid.
UK: goal is to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed by covid (after stretching its capacity to the maximum by delaying millions of procedures).
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