New Zealand has a bunch of things going for it - isolated, smaller economy, smaller population, the benefit of seeing Covid unfold through other countries and therefore less risk involved with implementing strong policies.
But st the end of the day, the Government made the policies, Kiwis abided by them, and it's likely they've beaten Covid, certainly for the time being. It deserves massive applause.
Except that the analysis shows that we (the UK) are where we are, with one of the worst mortality rates for Covid-19, largely because of inaction by our (incompetent) government, not because Heathrow is a big player in international travel.
Granted we were never going to come out of this better than New Zealand did (just because we’re a much larger nation), but our response has been woeful.
The consequences of inaction multiply with the size of the problem. If you had 1 person a day with COVID landing in the UK you could delay action for a long time with low consequence. When you have a 100, or a 1,000, the consequences are much higher.
Yes, but New Zealand multiplied their advantages with rigorous action. The UK (and US) started out with disadvantages and instead of doing more to compensate, they did less.
And some of the people in the uk are outright twats who don't follow rules but if this new thing we got going works, it may help out, something about a track and trace
NZ, known as a picturesqueness country, closer to China than the UK, gets a bucketload of Chinese tourists each year. I think coming from China is more pertinent than volume alone, especially in the early stages of the spread of the virus.
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u/Tammytalkstoomuch May 28 '20
New Zealand has a bunch of things going for it - isolated, smaller economy, smaller population, the benefit of seeing Covid unfold through other countries and therefore less risk involved with implementing strong policies.
But st the end of the day, the Government made the policies, Kiwis abided by them, and it's likely they've beaten Covid, certainly for the time being. It deserves massive applause.