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New Zealand Enters Nationwide Lockdown over One COVID Case
BBC ^ | 08/17/2021 | Staff

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…

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: andagain; covid; jacindaardern; lockdown; lockdowns; newzealand; vaccines; variants

1 posted on 08/17/2021 9:44:17 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
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2 posted on 08/17/2021 9:46:45 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Wouldn’t it be smarter to quarantine the one person who has CCP virus, instead of the whole nation? /rhetorical


3 posted on 08/17/2021 9:48:38 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

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.


4 posted on 08/17/2021 9:51:23 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

I presume this is to protect the hypochondriac tech freaks who own bug out mansions.


5 posted on 08/17/2021 9:52:34 AM PDT by Track9 (Liberalism is a far worse virus. )
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To: EvilCapitalist

http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/Uh_Yeah.mp3


6 posted on 08/17/2021 9:54:37 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Nextrush

I think very few guns were actually turned in. (at least initially)


7 posted on 08/17/2021 9:55:19 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: EvilCapitalist

If it saves just 1 life…


8 posted on 08/17/2021 9:58:45 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Where have I heard that before..... hmm?


9 posted on 08/17/2021 10:00:18 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

New Zealand Enters Nationwide Lockdown over One COVID Case

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.


10 posted on 08/17/2021 10:04:09 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
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To: Nextrush

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”


11 posted on 08/17/2021 10:04:27 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: EvilCapitalist

He’s apparently already been out and about for a while, so quarantining just him wouldn’t do much.


12 posted on 08/17/2021 10:05:11 AM PDT by CrazyCatChick (But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Covid news and other news:

https://nextrushfree.blogspot.com/2021/08/news-summary-intelligence-report_17.html


13 posted on 08/17/2021 10:06:11 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

NZ must be a buncha anti-vaxxers.


14 posted on 08/17/2021 10:09:10 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Bizzaro Land.


15 posted on 08/17/2021 10:09:19 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Government of Karen, by Karen, for Karen.


16 posted on 08/17/2021 10:12:24 AM PDT by PGR88
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17 posted on 08/17/2021 10:24:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

They could always euthanize and incinerate the infected; then nobody else needs to be locked down/


18 posted on 08/17/2021 10:35:18 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (... to the Republic for which it stands ...)
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To: EvilCapitalist
Rhetorical or not, I'll give my answer: DUH!

Remember, the person ordering this is Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, a far Left radical politician and tyrannical dictator commie wannabe.

19 posted on 08/17/2021 10:38:46 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: EvilCapitalist

It’s the New Zealand Hysterical Fool 2021 Tour!


20 posted on 08/17/2021 12:26:57 PM PDT by sarge83
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