New Zealand going into lockdown over one COVID case

[Jase 13,421]

Not a single case since February. Mind = blown.

The envy I feel that NZ have somebody like Jacinda leading while I'm hanging around in a country lead by Boris ****ing Johnson. 

[Shav33l 1,241]

Not some people LMAOing this. They made the right call. It'll make the virus manageable and lessen the spread. It's simple logic. 

[POP2 4,206]

Meanwhile my city has 1500 cases alone every single day

[President Biden 5,898]

 the clowns on this site thinking the USA can just casually do this.

 

 

WE ARE NOT A SMALL ISLAND. New Zealand is an extremely unique circumstance, unlike other countries.

 

 

This is hysterical considering how the news claimed she “eradicated” it LMAO

[Bleachella 2,932]

watching americans get mad over other countries handling covid better is genuinely one of the highlights of my day 

[Mister G 10,531]

5 minutes ago, President Biden said:

 the clowns on this site thinking the USA can just casually do this.

 

 

WE ARE NOT A SMALL ISLAND. New Zealand is an extremely unique circumstance, unlike other countries.

 

 

This is hysterical considering how the news claimed she “eradicated” it LMAO

I never once claimed the US could pull this off; but since you “LMAO”-ed my comment. I mean all I said she was one of the few world leaders who was doing it right and takes it seriously. Not sure what’s so funny about that.

[JohnWayne92 2,389]

We should have had mandatory vaccines, world wide, continued working from home and staying in phases everywhere for at least another year. 
 

I don’t think most places are far from closing down again, no one wants to talk about it, but the hospitals are almost full again

[judaspriest 934]

6 hours ago, Levine said:

I'm so jealous of them

Me too, lockdown world is amazeballs 

[Taylucifer 5,249]

I'm in New Zealand and seems like a good idea, we have no idea how far it has spread (the guy who tested positive has been moving around the country) and has had it for five days before he was tested. Considering we have had no cases I agree with governments decision, if we can eliminate it early that's probably the best option

[roy 1,216]

8 hours ago, LaLuna said:

This seems... a bit extreme. 

It's not. NSW of Australia went into a state wide lockdown too late and it went from 10 cases to 450 cases daily

[LukiiGleek 212]

I live in Australia. NZ and Australia both try to maintain the 0-Covid strategy, which is very ineffective when there are cases, but awesome when it works because it allows life to be completely normal. However with border opening next year they will have to get used to having cases again. It feels weird because the rest of the world is learning to live with it, while we are really behind everyone else. Even vaccination wise we are completely behind because we us AZ which now many people do not feel comfortable with. So now we are all waiting for Pfizer. The government is legit putting pressure on us. While most people want to get vaccinated, they want to have their choice in terms of vaccine

[Gaijin 444]

9 hours ago, RAMROD said:

That's because Japan have freedom law where locking down or forcing citizens to do something is not constitutional. I don't see it slowing down in Japan as with many other countries in Earth tbh. 

Yeah that’s the crux of the problem, but there’s a special measures law which allows them to do it.
 

They don’t want to, because they want to rip up the constitution (= freedom law) America forced at the end of the war. We all know this and we’re just waiting for them to blame the constitution for them literally doing nothing to stop it.

As it stands, people can’t get to hospitals. The medical system is collapsing really fast. 
 

I’m glad I’m vaccinated but I absolutely cannot describe how utterly terrified we all are right now. Basically permanent extreme anxiety…

[Helxig 45,787]

8 hours ago, President Biden said:

 the clowns on this site thinking the USA can just casually do this.

 

 

WE ARE NOT A SMALL ISLAND. New Zealand is an extremely unique circumstance, unlike other countries.

 

 

This is hysterical considering how the news claimed she “eradicated” it LMAO

New Zealand is the same size as Colorado, with almost as many people, so it could've worked in at least one state

[Guest]

I applaud her, this is the type of response every country should have. There’s a reason NZ has been COVID free for so long.

[GipJo 2,912]

6 hours ago, LukiiGleek said:

I live in Australia. NZ and Australia both try to maintain the 0-Covid strategy, which is very ineffective when there are cases, but awesome when it works because it allows life to be completely normal. However with border opening next year they will have to get used to having cases again. It feels weird because the rest of the world is learning to live with it, while we are really behind everyone else. Even vaccination wise we are completely behind because we us AZ which now many people do not feel comfortable with. So now we are all waiting for Pfizer. The government is legit putting pressure on us. While most people want to get vaccinated, they want to have their choice in terms of vaccine

I live in China and use the same 0 case strategy, but we have much higher vacc rate. We've had 2 mini regional cases, so more and more people want to get it as fast as they could than 3 months ago. So I think those small cases actually help, the premise is that government has enough vaccines prepared.

Also we don't do national lockdown, we start from street lockdown, and if the situation is worse we do area then city lockdown, so it's more efficient than national lockdown over 1 case.