Posted on 10/24/2021 4:09:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Most of the new infections reportedon Saturday were in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city that has been under a strict lockdown for more than two months. Looser restrictions are in place in most of the rest of the country of 5 million.
The risks of a further spread from the case reported in Blenheim, in the north-east of the South Island, remained low, health officials said, with the person likely in the late stage of infection.
On Friday, prime minister Jacinda Ardern said that New Zealand will end its strict lockdown measures and restore more freedoms only when 90% of its eligible population is fully vaccinated. As of Saturday, 70% of those eligible were fully inoculated.
The number of cases in the current outbreak reached 2,492 and New Zealand has recorded 28 coronavirus-related deaths so far in the pandemic.
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104 out of 5 million is 0.002%. A statistically insignificant number in any regard.
We should be grateful to NZ for doing the “zero COVID” experiment.
It wasn’t impossible in February 2020 to believe that it could have worked.
We know now, in October 2021, that zero COVID is impossible, we wouldn’t have known that but for the sacrifices made in NZ, Australia, and Iceland.
Of course, this means immediate cessation of zero-COVID aligned interventions.
“Heil Jacinda! “
She is actually a Marxist.
Distinction without a difference.
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