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Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by stjohnswarts on Friday November 26, 2021 @10:05PM (#29356947)
China is an authoritarian state that can almost anything it wants to do to limit the freedoms of its population. That same tactic won't work in (real) democratic countries, especially after 2 years of lockdowns.
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Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by sbierwagen on Saturday November 27, 2021 @05:27AM (#29359089)
New Zealand has a 14 day quarantine for international travelers: https://www.immigration.govt.nz/about-us/covid-19/border-clo...

Is New Zealand an authoritarian state?

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Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by stjohnswarts on Saturday November 27, 2021 @03:00PM (#29362879)
A 14 day quarantine isn't a lockdown, even NZ is getting sloppy with virus measures. If the people there get tired of it there is nothing the government can do to stop them. In China you will get quarantined forcefully by the police state, and if you don't like it you can go to prison or get disappeared if you raise to big of a commotion.
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Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by righttoolforjob on Sunday November 28, 2021 @10:48AM (#29369794)
New Zealand has cases, so what exactly is your point? The initial argument is that locking borders could prevent the spread of a highly contagious virus into a country. It cannot.
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