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Re:The Virus Changed. Now We Must ‘Get to Zero’ or Face Cata... by MattGaiser on Sunday January 31, 2021 @03:54AM (#25977244)
This is cherry picking as Taiwan and New Zealand are also on the list.
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Re:The Virus Changed. Now We Must ‘Get to Zero’ or Face Cata... by irq11 on Sunday January 31, 2021 @03:56AM (#25977255)
Until they open their borders.
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Re:The Virus Changed. Now We Must ‘Get to Zero’ or Face Cata... by gridspy on Sunday January 31, 2021 @04:21AM (#25977384)
The New Zealand borders are open and accepting citizen and essential arrivals into quarantine with a long waiting list.
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Re:The Virus Changed. Now We Must ‘Get to Zero’ or Face Cata... by icelancer on Sunday January 31, 2021 @04:35AM (#25977479)
>> The New Zealand borders are open and accepting citizen and essential arrivals into quarantine with a long waiting list.

This effectively reads "closed."

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Re:The Virus Changed. Now We Must ‘Get to Zero’ or Face Cata... by gridspy on Sunday January 31, 2021 @05:05AM (#25977641)
Strong borders are the price you have to pay for very little restriction inside them when most of the world is busy infecting its populace.

But yes, tourism or business trips are now infeasible. Fortunately it turns out that they were never essential.

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Re:The Virus Changed. Now We Must ‘Get to Zero’ or Face Cata... by irq11 on Sunday January 31, 2021 @08:33AM (#25978687)
> Fortunately, it turns out that they were never essential.

HN user doesn’t see the need for something, therefore it must not be essential.

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Re:The Virus Changed. Now We Must ‘Get to Zero’ or Face Cata... by mkl on Sunday January 31, 2021 @04:21AM (#25977388)
The NZ border is unlikely to be open to non-citizens this year. We'll wait until we've vaccinated ~everyone, and since we have no community transmission, we're sitting back in the queue a bit.
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Re:The Virus Changed. Now We Must ‘Get to Zero’ or Face Cata... by irq11 on Sunday January 31, 2021 @08:35AM (#25978707)
That’s great for tiny New Zealand, but the suggestion was that this path will lead to eradication.

It will not.

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