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Originally Posted by Paul
Thats what media driven paranoia does for you - you would think its the black death the way its going atm.
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It’s not about individual risk - for New Zealand getting it back to zero means businesses open, no distancing, sports stadiums full.
Accepting community transmission means none of these things are long term, realistically viable. The measures you have to introduce to keep it “manageable” are a sizeable part of the way to lockdown and you have no option but to commit to them until there’s a vaccine.
People will say “ah, but tourism”. It’s to that argument what the German cars line is re EU trade. A sizeable irrelevance. Getting the rest of the economy going normally outweighs tourism.