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by nisse72 1771 days ago
April 19: Quarantine free travel opens between NZ and Australia, as both countries are "covid free". Everyone looks forward to holidays and some limited return to travel normality.

May-June-July: NZ pauses quarantine free travel to NZ from some Aus states, resarts for some, pauses again, restarts for others, etc, etc, rinse and repeat, I can't figure out the actual timelines here. Some people are trapped while away and unable to return home.

July 24: NZ says fuck this and stops free travel from all of Australia until they get their shit together.

August: Australia experiences full-on outbreak

Currently about half of NZ is vaccinated, and there is worry we might need to go into another full lockdown if the delta variant arrives, after having virtually no covid in the community for over a year now. For now, I'm happy for the Australians to stay home.

I do wonder about this though: That partner also has to be five kilometres away from where you live.

Did they forget to say "at most"? (or, hmmm, "at least")
1 comments
mdoms 1771 days ago
Nowhere near half of NZ is vaccinated. Nowhere near.
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nisse72 1771 days ago
I apologize, 2.2 million doses have been administered. Source:

https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/...

At any rate, my point was not how many are, but how many remain to be vaccinated.

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mdoms 1771 days ago
17% of NZ is fully vaccinated, among the worst in the world. It should be a national shame, especially considering what is happening to our neighbours.
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refurb 1771 days ago
I have family in Vietnam who took a similar “zero covid” approach. They had ~2k cases prior to the current outbreak and are now at 250,000 and still haven’t peaked.

The govt is getting any vaccine they can and vaccinating everyone. They likely won’t get a majority vaccinated until the end of the year.

The “zero covid” approach is not a rationale approach. It only made sense as a bandaid until you can vaccinate.

“Zero covid” is like living in a house made of cardboard, and saying because you put out out all the sparks youre safe while wild fires rage around you.

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