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Like most countries, NZ's plan was to gradually tighten controls as virus gained momentum. Then doctors saw WHO's Feb China report & said “we should do it in the reverse order & throw everything at the pandemic at the start” #CrushTheCurve
ht @yaneerbaryam https://www.newscientist.com/article/2246858-why-new-zealand-decided-to-go-for-full-elimination-of-the-coronavirus/ https://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1291857572857876482
ht @yaneerbaryam https://www.newscientist.com/article/2246858-why-new-zealand-decided-to-go-for-full-elimination-of-the-coronavirus/ https://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1291857572857876482
NZ #CrushTheCurve
1. Border controls & hotel quarantine of travellers to stop Covid from entering
2. Lockdown & physical distancing to stop community transmission
3. Using time gained by 1&2 to build #TestTraceIsolate state capacity & keep cases down https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12354489
1. Border controls & hotel quarantine of travellers to stop Covid from entering
2. Lockdown & physical distancing to stop community transmission
3. Using time gained by 1&2 to build #TestTraceIsolate state capacity & keep cases down https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12354489
New Zealand mitigated the economic ill-effects of elimination lockdown with $13 billion of income support (~$600 per person per week) & helped ppl in distress with social support. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2025203?query=featured_home https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1295038237711503362
New Zealand covid suppression strategy had an unexpected side-effect. Masks & social disancing reduced influenza infections by 99.8% during the winter & prevented ~1500 flu-related deaths. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018767843/near-extinction-of-influenza-in-nz-as-numbers-drop-due-to-lockdown
US: Cardboard cutouts watching baseball game under a blood orange sky
New Zealand:
https://twitter.com/kevpluck/status/1315286358110466050
Daily life in NZ, Vietnam, China has largely returned to normal. At what point will we learn from their playbook? ht @devisridhar https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/10/continual-local-lockdowns-answer-covid-control
New Zealand:
https://twitter.com/kevpluck/status/1315286358110466050Daily life in NZ, Vietnam, China has largely returned to normal. At what point will we learn from their playbook? ht @devisridhar https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/10/continual-local-lockdowns-answer-covid-control
Jacinda Ardern's Labour party wins in a landslide. In her first term, she led New Zealand through a major terrorist attack, deadly volcanic eruption & mobilized all of society against the virus. Hope her 2nd term has less drama! https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54519628
Australia, like New Zealand, borrowed the E Asian #StampItOut & not defeatist #FlattenTheCurve. Mass efficient testing, contact tracing & travel restrictions. Little wonder that unlike Europe & N America, public trust in govt has nearly doubled! https://twitter.com/stefanauer_hku/status/1321681175996375041
"I don't think it would have been possible for the rest of the West to mimic the Australian experience, coz their Confucian values & authoritarian social system are too alien for us to contemplate"- @Birdyword
Satire aside,heres how https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-29/coronavirus-melbourne-how-we-hit-our-target/12826692 https://twitter.com/NickKristof/status/1324875370542358529
Satire aside,heres how https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-29/coronavirus-melbourne-how-we-hit-our-target/12826692 https://twitter.com/NickKristof/status/1324875370542358529
"Melbourne's coronavirus second wave seemed impossible to defeat. Our modelling showed exactly how to do it" https://abc.net.au/news/2020-10-29/coronavirus-melbourne-how-we-hit-our-target/12826692
At Covid Zero, 3 months later, a hard fought victory of State+Society+Science. What compassionate leadership sounds like https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/statement-premier-81
At Covid Zero, 3 months later, a hard fought victory of State+Society+Science. What compassionate leadership sounds like
https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/statement-premier-81
The search for cultural explanations for Australia/NZ covid win is funny -
Aussies are obedient & follow rules. It comes from their penal colony origins.
Aussies live in an unforgiving environment & respect Nature's fury.
Dunno maybe do things like E Asia? https://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1326974025705381888
Aussies are obedient & follow rules. It comes from their penal colony origins.
Aussies live in an unforgiving environment & respect Nature's fury.
Dunno maybe do things like E Asia? https://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1326974025705381888
Confucian collectivist Antipodeans living in their virus-repelling arid climate ruled by authoritarian govts that tests them & separates them from their families. Then puts them up in comfy hotels while paying them $1100. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/let-them-eat-cake-new-zealand-couple-document-luxury-life-in-covid-19-quarantine
