New Zealand locked down after a single
COVID-19 case. Now 148 people are
infected, and experts are worried
Business Insider,
by
Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
8/25/2021 10:20:30 PM
New Zealand has extended its national lockdown by at least four days as it tries to contain the highly infectious Delta variant. The country first went into lockdown on August 17 after it detected a single COVID-19 case in Auckland, which health officials assumed was Delta. New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Thursday that the infected individual had returned from Sydney, Australia - a COVID-19 hotspot - and arrived in Auckland, the country's largest city, on August 7. By the time it was announced on Monday that the lockdown was being extended, the outbreak was responsible for 107 cases, according to
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Ribicon 8/25/2021 10:33:29 PM (No. 892966)
More like a crockdown. FTA: "Under Level 4 rules, New Zealanders can only leave the house for exercise, supermarket shopping, essential medical care including pharmacy visits, and getting a test." How much can governments get away with? They'll have us all eating bugs soon enough, once the focus on the climate change crisis resumes, and most of us will like it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Omen55 8/25/2021 11:08:41 PM (No. 892993)
She is such a maroon.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 8/25/2021 11:24:47 PM (No. 893005)
LOL! You fools, you cannot keep this virus out forever.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
XCenturion 8/25/2021 11:27:10 PM (No. 893008)
Might I suggest rather than locking down entire countries or communities let's try locking up tyrannical politicians!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
dickiedeeb 8/26/2021 1:44:24 AM (No. 893079)
The horseface has the support of its people so good for them If you just hide from the deadly virus long enough it will just give up and go away So keep up the good work! im a little more concerned with my own country thank you and a phenomenon called antibody dependent enhancement Maybe you all have heard of it if not you will
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 8/26/2021 2:38:27 AM (No. 893096)
These 'ultra nazi' treatments do NO work, except to get the folks used to the totalitarian iron boot on their necks.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 8/26/2021 5:18:21 AM (No. 893104)
If they are worried they are not experts.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 8/26/2021 5:42:35 AM (No. 893118)
The NZ PM is borderline crazy.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Highlander 8/26/2021 6:17:34 AM (No. 893138)
The one underlying factor not mentioned much in all this panicporn is the DEATH rate. the COVID-19 fear factor has been compared to the Black Death of Europe which killed an estimated twenty-five percent to a third of the medieval population. This “terrifying” Delta Variant has a 98 plus percent survival rate. In comparison, the 1918 bug had a death rate of 2.7% or a 97.3% survival rate. Personally, I know of just one family member who died of the 1918 flu. As of now, only my twenty-one year old granddaughter had Covid and it was no worse than a typical cold and she is now healthy. It grates me to see this mask-wearing stampede everywhere I go, especially on a school campus. Because it’s my job, I have to wear a mask in the classroom. I’m one of just three people on the entire school ground outside without one. This is depressing and ignorant conformity. Getting back to this nuttiness in NZ and Australia, both liberal-led countries, they should take the example of Sweden; no lockdowns and optional masking. That is truly smart governance.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 8/26/2021 7:27:44 AM (No. 893183)
Are these the same folks who bravely fought and died at Gallipoli?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 8/26/2021 8:06:15 AM (No. 893217)
The kiwis should do what's done in those sci-fi outer space movies - -
- - put everyone into a multi-year coma - - say until 2037 - - then the whole country can come alive at the same time - - and no one will be a-scared any more.
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'assumed was Delta'.
Just like in the US. The super deadly boogie-man has reared its head - even if we don't really have a test for it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
JackBurton 8/26/2021 9:05:48 AM (No. 893271)
Q: Will the lockdown stop the spread of a virus that can infect animals (I'm thinking sheep here) and is everywhere?
A: Hahahahahahahaha. Even when you find out, you won't find out.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
red1066 8/26/2021 10:23:45 AM (No. 893379)
I see the lockdowns didn't work again. I'm not surprised.
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Sounds like the lock down actually made it worse.