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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
It also includes those who have attained immunity. So if one of the variants tries to claim a host who has already had the more virulent strain, the individual’s anti-bodies and/or T-cells would fight it off.
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NZ is a much smaller country with only a relatively few large population centres, coupled with the fact that not many people travel there.
New Zealanders remain in danger of infection from this virus, particularly the new strain. It only takes one super-spreader to arrive in the country with Covid just recently acquired to set off a chain reaction.
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You cannot control the whole of the British population to do that. Even if your idea would work in theory, it would never work in practice.
Did you see how many fines had been handed out to partygoers on today’s news?
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What about travellers bringing it back into the country again?
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Auckland has 1.5m people. Were they ALL infected?
The question was about whether lockdowns achieve anything. They can and do, but ONLY if people stop behaving like depraved morons.
Fines are meaningless, because people are not going to pay them. Start jailing people, and perhaps they will start behaving responsibly.
Where a traveller brings it into the UK, if those and everybody else behaves themselves, then it shouldn't be able to spread further in the first place.