[schemy]

New Zealand has just had to quarantine 1/3 of their population, again, because of 4 cases. Until the virus is contained everywhere you will yo-yo between closing everything and opening it.

Unless we build a wall around every developing country this will be going on for years.

The economy can bounce back from one quarantine, can it bounce back from 12?

[latchkey]

After 100 days clean and zero deaths, Vietnam just discovered a few cases from some Chinese who had snuck into the country illegally. Those have now grown into many more cases... and deaths.

NZ is seeing what has just happened in VN only days before and acting on it because they know what will happen if they don't.

[thu2111]

They didn't "have" to do that and most places aren't yoyoing around, they're over it already and bumping along the noise floor of cases.

NZ leadership has chosen this illogical and self-destructive path because they don't understand risk or data or, apparently, economics.