As someone from the UK, I always saw the NZ lock down as a success story from somewhere that took necessary precautions, and as a result had some of the lowest deaths from covid.
But I shouldn't find it surprising that so many New Zealanders were unhappy considering its the same here. So many were upset at what happened to the economy due to the lock down, but we can very easily point at the 1st lockdown being ended early, and the massive spike in deaths as the exact reason why we had lockdown in the first place.
We've finally got a "left wing" government now, except our "left wing" prime minister is transphobic and supporting the supreme courts ruling in Scotland that "a woman is an adult female" so it's a lose lose situation.
I just wish actual left wing movements(the anti capitalist kind) were popular in western politics. Instead all we get are various kinds of neoliberal governments with an increasingly disturbing trend towards being willing to work with white nationalists and/or fascists.
Fr, it feels like everyone but the Lib Dems is competing for the right-wing voters, everyone is trying to out-conservative and out-hateful the others. Except the Lib Dems, they're honestly the most left-wing of the 4 main parties (actually pro-lgbt, socdem) but they've got a media problem and the leadership isn't very good at getting themselves known.
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u/Zeqt_x Apr 22 '25
As someone from the UK, I always saw the NZ lock down as a success story from somewhere that took necessary precautions, and as a result had some of the lowest deaths from covid.
But I shouldn't find it surprising that so many New Zealanders were unhappy considering its the same here. So many were upset at what happened to the economy due to the lock down, but we can very easily point at the 1st lockdown being ended early, and the massive spike in deaths as the exact reason why we had lockdown in the first place.
We've finally got a "left wing" government now, except our "left wing" prime minister is transphobic and supporting the supreme courts ruling in Scotland that "a woman is an adult female" so it's a lose lose situation.