When the New Zealand lockdown is lifted AGAIN, the virus will surge AGAIN. Lockdowns are not a rational strategy and they do enormous harm to the country and its people by devastating their economies and the terrible toll on their mental health.
This woman prime minister is acting like an obsessed mother but the citizens are not her helpless toddler children.
If the prime minister wants to stop death in NZ, she should do something about the dangerous, narrow and twisting highways throughout the country on which so many die every year. The people of NZ drive WAAAAY too fast for their substandard roads. I experienced it first-hand.
The people of New Zealand will learn this lesson the hard way. When they are still being treated like cattle a year from now and the virus keeps returning, the folly of this approach will be seen by all.
But I rarely read about the NZ citizenry pushing back against these COVID19 policies. They seem pretty happy being governed like they're helpless toddlers. To be sure, there is SOME spirit of individuality (not everyone turned in their guns) but, unlike in America where we had protests against lockdowns, I don't see ANY material signs of Lady Liberty in NZ.
To be sure, NZ grew out of British settlers who feared French encroachment, and rather than fighting they ran to England for support...thus, their national identity isn't that of rugged individualism but of asking Dad (or, nowadays, Mom) for help.
But what I'm reading about in NZ is North Korea level of compliance. Maybe it is media bias, but I don't think so. What gives?
‘This woman prime minister...’
think I see the problem here...