Posted on 08/17/2021 9:44:17 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
New Zealand has announced a snap lockdown after a man tested positive for Covid, the first case in six months.
The case was detected in Auckland, which will be in lockdown for a week, while the rest of the country will be in lockdown for three days. Authorities say they are working on the assumption that the new case was the Delta variant.
Just around 20% of its population has been fully vaccinated.
Coromandel, a coastal town where the infected person had visited, will be in lockdown for seven days too.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the toughest "level 4" rules were required - closing schools, offices and all businesses with only essential services remaining operational.
"I want to assure New Zealand that we have planned for this eventuality. Going hard and early has worked for us before," she said. The patient is a 58-year-old man, who is believed to have been infectious since last Thursday.
There are at least 23 potential sites of transmission. There was reportedly a rush at supermarkets in Auckland, as locals anticipated a snap lockdown…
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Wouldn’t it be smarter to quarantine the one person who has CCP virus, instead of the whole nation? /rhetorical
Prime Minister Jessica Ardern of the Labor Party and her then Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters of the “New Zealand First” (”China First”?) Party took the guns away in a mass confiscation in 2018 following the mass murders at the mosques.
Just FYI for Second Amendment advocates.
By the way that “New Zealand First” party wiped out last election Ardern now governs with the Green Party.
I presume this is to protect the hypochondriac tech freaks who own bug out mansions.
I think very few guns were actually turned in. (at least initially)
If it saves just 1 life…
Where have I heard that before..... hmm?
New Zealand Enters Nationwide Lockdown over One COVID Case
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Someday, 30 or 50 years from now, a history will be written where people will consider what was going on in these times to be a global example of mass hysteria similar to the mass hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials.
I have trouble getting her name right its “Jacinda Ardern”.
That’s the name “Jacinda Ardern”.
She put the country’s major city and town this case was found in on a seven day lockdown and the rest including the South Island on three day lockdown. We know they can extend them later on if they choose.
And she said regarding the lockdown that it was time to:
“Go hard and early”
He’s apparently already been out and about for a while, so quarantining just him wouldn’t do much.
Covid news and other news:
https://nextrushfree.blogspot.com/2021/08/news-summary-intelligence-report_17.html
NZ must be a buncha anti-vaxxers.
Bizzaro Land.
Government of Karen, by Karen, for Karen.
They could always euthanize and incinerate the infected; then nobody else needs to be locked down/
Remember, the person ordering this is Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, a far Left radical politician and tyrannical dictator commie wannabe.
It’s the New Zealand Hysterical Fool 2021 Tour!
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