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In New Zealand there were only a few weeks of lockdown followed by much time when people could go out without any fear. COVID never ended (we chose that). The
by inigyou 3mo ago
In New Zealand there were only a few weeks of lockdown followed by much time when people could go out without any fear.
COVID never ended (we chose that). The pandemic turned to an endemic, which is a way of saying that the plan is now natural selection, as everyone will get infected (most people already have been). The death rates have somewhat reduced, but not to the extent that it's as harmless as the cold. Essentially it's now a particularly nastseasonal flu strain. If you're vaccinated, no you aren't, because COVID mutates as fast as any other flu and you last got vaccinated for it years ago.
- phyalow 3mo agoAuckland was locked down for months
- EdwardDiego 3mo agoInitially it was locked down the same as the rest of NZ. And then it got locked down again a few months after the initial lockdowns, due to a Delta outbreak, the most lethal variant of Covid. It wasn't locked down for months on end while the rest of NZ was having fun in the sun, it was locked down the same as the rest of us initially, then it wasn't, then it was locked down again because a strain with a high lethality was present in the city. That strain was first detected in a rest home where it killed multiple elderly people. The second lockdown wasn't for shits and giggles. I really struggle to understand why Aucklanders don't understand this, and fixate on "We were locked down for months, unlike the rest of New Zealand, and it was really bad for our local economy" when the second lockdown was to save lives in Auckland and the lives of other Kiwis, because if it had spread from Auckland, there would have been plenty more dead Grandmas around the motu.
- inigyou 3mo agoI don't understand this "we were locked down for months but being locked down for months doesn't count if there's a good reason." Were they locked down or weren't they?
- phyalow 3mo agoYes it was months, 107 days in total for Auckland, and the borders were effectively shut across the entire country from March 2020 through to March 2022. It was a huge and significant distruption for many people.
- EdwardDiego 3mo agoYou don't understand "we were locked down, and therefore, we avoided a bunch of peopled dying"? Sorry, did I type too fast or something?
- didntknowyou 3mo agoit was locked down harder than the rest of the country, yes it’s a fact. he wasn’t looking for sympathy idk why you needed to overreact over and invalidate his personal experience
- EdwardDiego 3mo agoBecause it was another month, when Delta turned up and killed a bunch of old people. But oh no, it was bad for cafés!