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Whoops you missed something New Zealand Reports No New COVID Cases as Country Nears Elimination for Second Time https://www.newsweek.com/new-zealand-reports-n
by just-juan-post 6y ago
Whoops you missed something
New Zealand Reports No New COVID Cases as Country Nears Elimination for Second Time
https://www.newsweek.com/new-zealand-reports-no-new-covid-cases-country-nears-elimination-second-time-1532778 https://www.newsweek.com/new-zealand-reports-no-new-covid-ca...
And a third is coming. And a fourth. And a fifth.
At what point will you admit that it won't be eliminated?
- cgrealy 6y agoI fail to see your point. We eliminated the virus in the country. There were no active cases of COVID, and we're on track to eliminate it again. If your house has rats and you call an exterminator, you don't say you still have rats because other houses do and they might show up again.
- just-juan-post 6y agoYour idea of eliminated is "no positive cases for several weeks" Mine is longer term. > I fail to see your point I know you do. I know you would. My point is that you have not eliminated it. If it keeps coming back it's not eliminated is it?
- jlokier 6y ago> If it keeps coming back it's not eliminated is it? Yes it is eliminated. If it's not eliminated, it can't come back. If someone removes all the rats from the house, so that there aren't any, we say they have eliminated the rats. If, later, someone brings a rat to the house, we say they have brought rats back to the house and now we need to eliminate them again. Elimination is an action, the action of removal, and eliminated means the removal is now done. It means the thing is gone. It can still come back later.