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Originally Posted by jfman

The proof will be in the pudding whether NZ returns to an almost fully open internal economy and continues it’s successful rejection of “living with the virus”.

To date the most successful responses (in both health and economic terms) have been the hardest, earliest interventions - see the Lancet article linked earlier.

Some are desperately hoping for New Zealand’s failure to vindicate our atrocious response under the guise of “we couldn’t have done any better”. I, however, am absolutely rooting for them.

Despite your explanation, I can't see why you'd be rooting for a country whose strategy is failing. One case is sufficient to order a lockdown when so very few people are vaccinated - a lot of people will agree with that.

But rooting for country (i.e. their government) that has failed to vaccinate its people (except out of pity) is nonsense.