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This won't happen. NZ keeping Covid out is down to good luck, not competence. On a long enough time scale NZ will face the same fate as those across the ditch.
by Overton-Window 5y ago
This won't happen. NZ keeping Covid out is down to good luck, not competence. On a long enough time scale NZ will face the same fate as those across the ditch.
- over_bridge 5y agoThat seems overly dismissive. NZ could have been run by a bunch of jackasses like so many other states/nations have been who did nothing but politicize and posture. Sure its an advantage to be on an island but it's one which is easily squandered through negligence - and it wasn't. I'd say the biggest advantage we had was being too small for Fox News to broadcast here
- Overton-Window 5y agoJust yesterday at the largest port in the country: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/448887/minister-for-covid-19-calls-for-clear-picture-on-what-went-wrong-at-port-of-tauranga https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/448887/minister-for-covi... It's only a matter of time.
- unearth3d 5y agoWe do have some jackasses, fortunately they aren't in power, but they are actively sowing division and racism -National Party. If they'd been in we'd look like UK, Belgium, Louisiana as I'm sure they would have weaponis do it against minorities and Maori.
- unearth3d 5y agoQuite different demographics here (I live in Otago, southern NZ) many, many people understand enough biology to know to be aware (life sciences is 80% of our economy). Also we have per capita < idiots and selfishness here. We have to keep covid / Delta out, would collapse health system and kill tens of thousands (especially Polynesians). Good time to move away from tourism income, helping us bridge to low-carbon, 21st C fit state.
- AndrewBissell 5y agoIt being an infeasible plan is just a bonus. A permanent emergency means permanent emergency powers.