> that is absolutely crazy.

Which bit?

> they found one Covid case since Feb or > one Covid case prompted the lockdown

They've gone into lockdown because the man "is deemed to have been infectious since Aug. 12" and "visited a crowded pub on Saturday night [Aug 14th]" and "the probability of it being delta". I should imagine they don't want a superspreader event coming from that when they've been C19-free since February...

Yes, it's crazy good that one of the few places in the world that has established protocols that have prevented the spread of and death from COVID-19 has not gone off of the idealogical deep end. They continue to follow policy that has prevented countless deaths.

This isn't all that crazy in the context of a place like Australia or NZ.

In my state in Australia we have only had two very brief lockdowns of several days since the pandemic started and they were to let contact tracers get out ahead of a small outbreak when they were concerned that circumstances were not in their favour.

You’ll find that the vast majority of the country is on board. This approach won’t last forever. Once the population is deemed sufficiently vaccinated (which is still supply-constrained) we will transition to “living with it.” Until then, zero tolerance is saving thousands of lives.

up to 277 cases: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300391456/covid19-live-gove...

They found one case, and knew that there would be more. They're now up to 4.

You lock down at one so that you can limit the spread of the already in the community cases.

Now 51.

Do you still think crazy?

Up to 11 cases now, and traced the originating case.

now 31