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FWIW, Australia had 23 local cases in the last month (an outbreak which resulted in a major city going into a snap lockdown). Australia and NZ's risk profiles
by px1999 6y ago
FWIW, Australia had 23 local cases in the last month (an outbreak which resulted in a major city going into a snap lockdown).
Australia and NZ's risk profiles are different from pretty much anywhere else in the world right now. On that level, it's not a particularly reckless move.
That said, I understand the hesitation that a lot of people, particularly from NZ have. Our positions (both NZ and Australia's) have been hard earned, and one major slip up could make it all count for nothing.
- markdown 6y ago> Australia and NZ's risk profiles are different from pretty much anywhere else in the world right now. Fiji hasn't had a single covid case in the wild in a year, with all our covid patients being detected in quarantine and isolated until recovery. No bubble with us though. The Aussies get it first.
- px1999 6y agoI'd personally be in favor of some sort of travel bubble within the pacific with other countries who share our low/zero local transmission (or at least to have a more lightweight quarantine process involved). That said, my point was that opening NZ up to Australia (and vice versa) is a very different scenario to opening up to eg the US, France or the UK.