> You can pretend an entire city spending 7 days locked in their house You do understand that people were not actually locked in their houses in NZ? There were

> You can pretend an entire city spending 7 days locked in their house You do understand that people were not actually locked in their houses in NZ? There were reports of people literally being locked in to their apartments in China, but don't confuse "lock down" with "locked in" when it comes to NZ. In practice lock downs (at least in Aus) were stopping people going into offices or non-essential places of business, or congregating in parks or other places. Whilst definitely an imposition on people, it wasn't equivalent to what was described as happening in China. Of course they stopped it eventually because the costs were unsustainable, and it was never intended to be a permanent solution. The whole point was to go hard at the start, get the population vaccinated, then open back up. I haven't checked recent numbers, but last time I did, the number of deaths in NZ/AU per capita were far lower than in the US. Which you might not consider worthwhile, but we might have different value systems.