Posted on 04/25/2021 6:29:02 AM PDT by DoodleBob
A band in New Zealand played to a cowed of 50,000 fans on Saturday, while much of the world remains in lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The five-piece group has been playing to huge crowds on its tour of the country where social distancing isn't required after the nation all but stamped out the coronavirus with its stringent lockdown measures.
The band's tour finale on Saturday night was billed as the largest concert in the world since the beginning of the pandemic, which has devastated live music industries, as well as other forms of entertainment in front of live crowds.
Pictures from the event at Auckland's Eden Park stadium showed Singer Matiu Walters grinning as he gazed out over tens of thousands damp but delirious fans...
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The small island nation of around 5 million people has been hailed for its successful fight against coronavirus, having essentially eradicated the disease.
Out of the almost 3.1 million people who have died as a result of Covid-19 around the world, just 26 have been from New Zealand, which has also registered a remarkably low number of cases - just 2,600 - as of April 24, 2021.
The country has taken a similar approach to neighbouring Australia in tackling the deadly virus, locking regions down quickly for days in response to even the smallest outbreak.
This approach was seen in Australia on Friday when millions of people in Western Australia were plunged into a three-day lockdown after just two cases of coronavirus were recorded.
After Western Australia's Premier Mark McGowan made the announcement of the lockdown, New Zealand put all travel with Western Australia on hold, and an Air New Zealand flight due to leave Perth on Friday was cancelled.
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I don’t think Taiwan ever shut down.
It was wall, to wall PACKED.
Did my heart good to see.
So, closing the border and keeping away all foreign invaders is the answer. I’m sure Biden will get right on that. /S
Since the vaccines do not prevent infection (only severe illness), it seems likely that once New Zealand opens up, they will eventually have lots of infections. Now it may be that because of vaccination, few if any people will die, but the Left is obsessed with “cases” so that will be viewed as a failure.
Not to mention the massive anti-lockdown rally yesterday in London.
So isolation forever is the solution. Got it.
China on the other hand may have plans.
They were cowed in NZ?
I thought the place was overpopulated by sheep.
A/O 1987-3 million people 60 million sheep.
Since they’ve licked the problem, perhaps we should start shipping our un-vaccinated illegals there instead of distributing them across our country.
Looks like a Trump rally. Do I ever miss those.
It’s easy to protect a small island. And they have a merit based immigration system. Also very socialist. I’m not sure if they still have privatized services. They did the port system and the airport a while back. Not sure if the socialists took over again after that.
“Since the vaccines do not prevent infection (only severe illness)”
UK government is projecting that 60%-70% of those hospitalized with covid, and dying from covid, in the coming third wave, will have had the vaccine.
Mark my words: It won’t last.
New Zealand will be a Chinese colony in our lifetimes.
Ocean distance is no protection in the 21st century.
The silly Kiwis don’t even have a single fighter jet, relying on good karma and Uncle Sam to protect them.
The ChiComs will take North and South Island in a week, after offloading thousands of APCs in their undefended ports.
Uncle Sam will be nowhere around.
It’s called cowed control, to prevent mostly peaceful protests.
See 16.
I suspect this could be NZ in the next few years.
California and New York aren’t islands but the New Zealand government draws from trade with China which it maintains along with praise for China unlike Australia which has taken some measures against China.
No wonder they crackdown on the coronavirus.
But in 2018 New Zealand confiscated firearms from its citizens following the mass murders at the mosques.
NZ is not a free country and its in bed with Communist China.
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