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New Zealand is not comparable to any other country really - the geographical location, isolation, culture and way of living etc makes it ideal case for a lockdo
by glofish 6y ago
New Zealand is not comparable to any other country really - the geographical location, isolation, culture and way of living etc makes it ideal case for a lockdown based approach.
It is not feasible to lock down Brazil or Mexico - more people would die because of the lockdown.
As for the Swedish approach - the rest of the world hates it primarly because long term it might just prove that the lockdowns were both ineffectual and unnecessary perhaps even more damaging.
- Izkata 6y ago> the rest of the world hates it primarly because long term it might just prove that the lockdowns were both ineffectual and unnecessary perhaps even more damaging. This is already what it's looking like when comparing across states in the US.
- roca 6y agoCountries quite different to NZ achieved (near) elimination with a lockdown approach. Vietnam, for example. Other countries have been successful without a lockdown, e.g. South Korea. There's more than one way to beat this virus. New Zealand even made some big mistakes to this day --- not encouraging mask wearing, not testing people in quarantine --- and still pulled it off. Beating COVID19 is not easy but it's not crazy hard and you don't have to be an island fortress. Seems to me there's a lot of special pleading going on to rationalize failures of leadership and execution. OTOH I agree that lockdowns in many countries have been very poorly done. In particular, a lot of countries have used lockdowns as a delaying tactic with no clear strategy for eliminating the virus or avoiding endless cycles of infection and lockdown --- certainly no clearly communicated strategy. In those cases, indeed a relaxed lockdown with more infection might be better in the long term.