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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
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God almighty, talk about lacing a headline with your political slant of choice.
It was going to be a terrible set of results regardless, I don’t think the government response made the figures any worse than they might have been, the real test will be the speed of recovery
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Originally Posted by jfman
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.
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Going into full lockdown when there is less than a handful of cases doesn’t seem particularly viable either