Welll....it’s a long story. Basically, NZ shut off all travel and locked down the country hard. They successfully snuffed out COVID19 - until it came back a few weeks ago (imagine that...). This analysis suggests that their lockdown incrementally caused 3.1 percentage points of additional GDP decline in the second quarter. In contrast, the US’ lockdown incrementally forestalled 2.6 percentage points of additional GDP decline in the second quarter.
The leftists at any level think that somehow if we just lock down for 2, er, 4 er, 6 weeks, wear a mask, etc. somehow the virus will just disappear forever and that the only reason it is still around is because soem idiot didn’t wear a mask when they took a walk.
These are the same people who demand we follow the science.
“ Basically, NZ shut off all travel and locked down the country hard. ”
Yes. My Japanese niece was an au pair there and was stuck after New Zealand cut off contact with the rest of the world. She just got home at the beginning of September and then had to do a 14 day self-quarantine in Japan at her parents’ house. I haven’t had a chance to talk with her yet about how she got by all those months after her contract was up, but she was really happy to get home.