New Zealand PM Ardern Puts Nation in Lockdown on Single Covid Case

Re:New Zealand PM Ardern Puts Nation in Lockdown on Single C... by zimpenfish on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @10:44AM (#28210397)

> They found one, ONE Covid case

Since February, yes, because their lockdowns and controls worked to get the country free of it. Why would they change a clearly winning formula?

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Re:New Zealand PM Ardern Puts Nation in Lockdown on Single C... by pwner39 on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @01:29PM (#28212498)

I'd rather live in a country not free of COVID-19 than live in a country where lockdowns like this are indefinitely possible over a single, probably unsignificant case.

There are always going to be COVID-19 cases/hospitalizations/deaths from this point forward, whether populations are vaccinated or not, just as is the case with the Flu.

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Re:New Zealand PM Ardern Puts Nation in Lockdown on Single C... by simtel20 on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @08:26PM (#28216370)

Every case of covid in an unvaccinated community is significant.

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Re:New Zealand PM Ardern Puts Nation in Lockdown on Single C... by zimpenfish on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @03:55AM (#28218671)

And now there's 6 more, all linked to the same fella. Looks like it was a superspreader event after all.

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Re:New Zealand PM Ardern Puts Nation in Lockdown on Single C... by mrfusion on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @09:17PM (#28229259)

Imagine getting downvoted for this idea in 2019. We’ve lost our minds.

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