[nyokodo]

> especially when you consider how minimal the disruption had been until this most recent outbreak.

Does your family live in Auckland? The on-again/off-again severe lockdowns there have been brutal to families and businesses alike. Simple business calculations become extremely difficult in that environment even if your employees getting severely ill isn’t one of them. The tourism industry employed ~14% of the national workforce directly or indirectly, when will that sector recover? I would hardly call the disruption minimal.

[knz]

Yes, many of my family and friends are in Auckland.

I don't mean it hasn't caused any disruption - only that the disruption prior to this outbreak was minimal compared to much of the world over the last 18 months.