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> Yesterday kiwis were allowed to fly to Australia and enter the general population without quarantine. The Australian general population? That's fine, it's ge

> Yesterday kiwis were allowed to fly to Australia and enter the general population without quarantine. The Australian general population? That's fine, it's getting back in to NZ that's the issue. There will come a point where lives will be sacrificed in order to get economies going again. It's harsh, but true. Has NZ's economy escaped unscathed? I'd imaging that tourism is quite a large part of their GDP; but if I as a tourist have to quarantine for two weeks on arrival there's really not much point in visiting NZ at all. Once the rest of the world starts operating again, vaccine or not, NZ will have to follow and relax their isolation. They're hoping that by the time that comes there'll be a vaccine or better treatments. But there's no guarantee of that. The rest of the world will be in the position where those who would have died from Covid have already probably died, but NZ won't.

markdown 6y ago
> The rest of the world will be in the position where those who would have died from Covid have already probably died, but NZ won't. People who've survived COVID can get it again and die the second time: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-twice-death-dutch-woman/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-twice-death-dutch-woman/
- secondcoming 6y ago
  Yes. The main point in the article is that an 'eldery woman... with rare cancer.. and receiving chemotherapy' died after getting covid a second time. Most people now who get it aren't dying. The number of positive test cases is skyrocketing, but deaths aren't. There'll come a point where only death rates will used to judge whether lockdowns should continue or not, not infection rates.
  - iso947 6y ago
    Deaths in the U.K. are ballooning, as are hospital patients.
    - secondcoming 6y ago
      No they're not (deaths). The ratio of deaths per infections is quite low. It's right there on Google's page if you search for 'UK Covid'
      - iso947 6y ago
        Deaths in NW 17/Oct 45 (Not all data in yet) 10/Oct 37 3/Oct 22 26/Sep 14
iso947 6y ago
NZ has done far better economy wise than countries that went for “don’t harm the economy”

markdown 6y ago

> The rest of the world will be in the position where those who would have died from Covid have already probably died, but NZ won't. People who've survived COVID can get it again and die the second time: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-twice-death-dutch-woman/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-twice-death-dutch-woman/

secondcoming 6y ago
Yes. The main point in the article is that an 'eldery woman... with rare cancer.. and receiving chemotherapy' died after getting covid a second time. Most people now who get it aren't dying. The number of positive test cases is skyrocketing, but deaths aren't. There'll come a point where only death rates will used to judge whether lockdowns should continue or not, not infection rates.
- iso947 6y ago
  Deaths in the U.K. are ballooning, as are hospital patients.
  - secondcoming 6y ago
    No they're not (deaths). The ratio of deaths per infections is quite low. It's right there on Google's page if you search for 'UK Covid'
    - iso947 6y ago
      Deaths in NW 17/Oct 45 (Not all data in yet) 10/Oct 37 3/Oct 22 26/Sep 14

iso947 6y ago

NZ has done far better economy wise than countries that went for “don’t harm the economy”