well someone has it right

[ladypeartree]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coronavirus/new-zealand-isnt-just-flattening-the-curve-its-squashing-it/ar-BB12h1gC?ocid=spartanntp

[Justin Adams]

NZ has less pop that Dallas Ft Worth.

[kwikphilly]

Blessings Lady

    I wish I knew what it says but I dont click on external sites,my Anti-Malware & Ant-Spyware are both blocking it-too many potentially unwanted programs with the sitemsn has loads of cookies & ad-trackers,that could be why too

   Can you just give me a little summary?

[ladypeartree]

New Zealand appears to have acted much faster then the rest of the world and much tougher closing all borders and imposing very strict curfews so they have had less than any other country to deal with and appear to be already coming through the worse 

 

HAVELOCK NORTH, New Zealand —It’s been less than two weeks since New Zealand imposed a coronavirus lockdown so strict that swimming at the beach and hunting in bushland were banned. They’re not essential activities, plus we’ve been told not to do anything that could divert emergency services’ resources. 

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People have been walking and biking strictly in their neighborhoods, lining up six feet apart while waiting to go one-in-one-out into grocery stores, and joining swaths of the world in discovering the vagaries of home schooling.

It took only 10 days for signs that the approach here — “elimination” rather than the “containment” goal of the United States and other Western countries — is working.

he number of new cases has fallen for two consecutive days, despite a huge increase in testing, with 54 confirmed or probable cases reported Tuesday. That means the number of people who have recovered, 65, exceeds the number of daily infections.

“The signs are promising,” Ashley Bloomfield, the director-general of health, said Tuesday.

The speedy results have led to calls to ease the lockdown conditions, even a little, for the four-day Easter holiday, especially as summer lingers on.

But Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is adamant that New Zealand will complete four weeks of lockdown — two full 14-day incubation cycles — before letting up. She has, however, given the Easter Bunny special dispensation to work this weekend.

How has New Zealand, a country I still call home after 20 years abroad, controlled its outbreak so quickly? 

When I arrived here a month ago, traveling from the epicenter of China via the hotspot of South Korea, I was shocked that officials did not take my temperature at the airport. I was told simply to self-isolate for 14 days (I did). 

But with the coronavirus tearing through Italy and spreading in the United States, this heavily tourism-reliant country — it gets about four million international visitors a year, almost as many as its total population — did the previously unthinkable: it shut its borders to foreigners on March 19.

Two days later, Ardern delivered a televised address from her office — the first time since 1982 that an Oval Office-style speech had been given — announcing a coronavirus response alert plan involving four stages, with full lockdown being Level 4.

A group of influential leaders got on the phone with her the following day to urge moving to Level 4.

“We were hugely worried about what was happening in Italy and Spain,” said one of them, Stephen Tindall, founder of the Warehouse, New Zealand’s largest retailer.

“If we didn’t shut down quickly enough, the pain was going to go on for a very long time,” he said in a phone interview. “It’s inevitable that we will have to shut down anyway, so we would rather it be sharp and short.”

On the Monday, March 23, Ardern delivered another statement and gave the country 48 hours to prepare for a Level 4 lockdown. “We currently have 102 cases,” she said. “But so did Italy once.” 

From that Wednesday night, everyone had to stay at home for four weeks unless they worked in an essential job such as health care, or were going to the supermarket or exercising near their home.

A few hours before midnight, my phone sounded a siren as it delivered a text alert: “Act as if you have Covid-19. This will save lives,” it said. “Let’s all do our bit to unite against Covid-19.”

From the earliest stages, Ardern and her team have spoken in simple language: Stay home. Don’t have contact without anyone outside your household “bubble.” Be kind. We’re all in this together. 

[Clipper]

2 hours ago, Justin Adams said:

NZ has less pop that Dallas Ft Worth.

NZ has a population of ~4.8 million, or two Houstons.

[IloveyouGod.]

So, not that small of a population then considering the size of the island considering that Houston is one of the major cities here.   

[Lisajf]

I guess in NZ they are quite spaced out too

[IloveyouGod.]

Actually that would make a great deal of sense.  

[LadyKay]

7 hours ago, ladypeartree said:

closing all borders and imposing very strict curfews

We can't do that here. Well I mean we can. But we already got people right on this forum spouting off that telling people to say home is a socialist/communist take over.  

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11 minutes ago, LadyKay said:

We can't do that here. Well I mean we can. But we already got people right on this forum spouting off that telling people to say home is a socialist/communist take over.  

But before COVID-19, we had the socialists advocating open borders.  What kind of mess would we be in if socialists had been in charge?