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Re:Locked-out New Zealanders outraged as visa scheme for ric... by someotherperson on Saturday December 25, 2021 @07:20AM (#29682695)
That sounds like fanciful thinking.

There is quite literally nothing to suggest that having a higher intake would have created a single additional death or resulted in stronger or longer lockdowns.

New Zealand's own incompetence in not being able to come up with purpose-built facilities to handle overseas arrivals can't be written off with hypotheticals. It has been two years, no more excuses.

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Re:Locked-out New Zealanders outraged as visa scheme for ric... by roca on Saturday December 25, 2021 @08:05PM (#29688674)
I don't understand your point here. Are you claiming that we could have dispensed with MIQ altogether and kept COVID out some other way? Or are you claiming that we could have constructed enough MIQ infrastructure to let people come and go as they pleased at all times?
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