Posted on 06/08/2020 4:08:43 AM PDT by C19fan
New Zealand will end its strict coronavirus lockdown rules from midnight after the country recorded zero active cases. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the country had 'united in unprecedented ways to crush the virus'.
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Vacines should start coming out between end of the year early 2021.
Much of the NZ economy depends on tourism?
How long will they keep that shut down? Indefinitely?
I lived there for two years (during the early 1980s) and it is not surprising that that country was fortunate in all of this due to it’s location and size. I’ve read comments there that she likely did not have to go as far as she did (way stricter than what the Aussies implemented) and that certainly numerous businesses were that very adversely affected by how strict her lockdown policies were.
Did they crush it with assault rifles?
Normal flu, yes. With swine flu over 1000 children under 14 died. The news media was all over it, pinning it on Obama's weak response. Well no, that part is not true. Anyway there are 20 deaths ages 0-14 from COVID.
Maybe China can send them a fresh supply?
What a load of crap. The virus burned by twelfths out like all diseases do. Where was the vaccine that tended the backn plague? Hint - there wasn’t one.
Nice to be an island with only one international airport.
New Zealand now has the protests we have here...
It was for 30 days they couldn’t visit family or leave home or work or go to school...
Now they are going to open their borders...
a lot of people died there during the 1968 Hong Kong Flu
A 22 yo illegal alien Mexican died here of this virus last week...
No, they do not. For the years 2010-2019, the average flu death toll (all age groups) is 37,000. The worst year in that time interval was 60,000. The lowest was 14,000.
That 60,000 is provisional as I recall, and could actually be revised down to as low as something like 40,000 I think? Could also be revised up, but it’s just an estimate while the data is compiled.
Doesn’t change your point, but it’s worth noting.
I "think" that refers to the 2020 numbers. I deliberately left those out and only looked at "whole years" and "pre-COVID" for the statistics I used. I'd have to look again, but I think that 60,000 number was from several years ago..don't remember which one. On some other thread, I actually posted the year-by-year data, but finding that specific post again...................
It’s here: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
The 61,000 is the 2017-2018 season. From that site: “* Estimates from the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 seasons are preliminary and may change as data are finalized.”
The 95% confidence range for that year is 46,000 – 95,000 (meaning based on the preliminary numbers, they’re 95% confident the actual death total is somewhere in that range).
For easier reference, previous years are as follows:
2010-2011: 37,000
2011-2012: 12,000
2012-2013: 43,000
2013-2014: 38,000
2014-2015: 51,000
2015-2016: 23,000
2016-2017: 38,000
2017-2018: 61,000* (preliminary numbers)
2018-2019: 34,157* (preliminary numbers)
Average since 2010 is 37,000 Influenza deaths per year.
COVID-19: 113,019* (only 3 months of data, Influenza seasonal death totals above are for a whole year)
Yup...that’s where I got my info. Missed the tidbit about “provisional data”, though. Thanks.
No, they do not“
100,000. Correct and half of those were in two states, my friend.
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