New Zealand- 100 Days no Covid cases

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11:06a, 8/9/20
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https://www.khou.com/mobile/article/news/health/coronavirus/new-zealand-makes-100-days-of-being-coronavirus-free/285-16e1eaaa-30ad-49c3-8094-ee627905dda5


"It was good science and great political leadership that made the difference," said professor Michael Baker, an epidemiologist at the University of Otago. "If you look around the globe at countries that have done well, it's usually that combination."
From early on, New Zealand pursued a bold strategy of eliminating the virus rather than just suppressing its spread. Baker said other countries are increasingly looking to New Zealand for answers.
"The whole Western World has terribly mismanaged this threat, and they're realizing this now," Baker said.

This article could be the dumbest take on Covid public policy I've ever read. Comparing how an Island Nation can control a virus to countries that are landlocked or have any land borders is idiotic. Additionally, these people unknowingly are making Trump's case for a wall even more strong.

Media- Your "hit pieces" on Trump are only reinforcing that his policies by-and-large are correct. And apparently his racist "Chinese ban" wasn't racist enough.
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11:07a, 8/9/20
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Are they testing anyone in New Zealand?
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11:09a, 8/9/20
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Did their govt incentivize "covid deaths" 3x over like our idiot show govt did?

Are they tallying fake inflated numbers the way we are here?
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11:11a, 8/9/20
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Being an island nation with only a few million people makes it a lot easier.
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In reply to 45-70Ag • 11:12a, 8/9/20
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45-70Ag said:
Are they testing anyone in New Zealand?


They tested 4,200 people yesterday.

https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-current-situation/covid-19-current-cases
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In reply to Beerosch • 11:13a, 8/9/20
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Beerosch said:
Being an island nation with only a few million people makes it a lot easier.


This
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11:16a, 8/9/20
You mean an island nation in a very far-flung location with a small population is having a better time controlling an outbreak of an infectious virus? I know the implication here is that this left-wing president in New Zealand is so wonderful and if only Trump was as smart as she is we'd have no cases in the United States. Throw in the fact that said left winger is disarming her citizens and you can see why our leftists here love her.
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11:17a, 8/9/20
New Zealand has one of the strictest immigration law of any nation.

So if I read the article correctly to stop Covid-19 we need to stop all immigration and close the boarders.
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11:19a, 8/9/20
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Apples to potatoes to compare to NZ. I loved traveling that country but there were a few days where we maybe interacted with 5 people. More sheep than people and Pop density of ~40/sq mile. Social distancing is just natural there along with natural immigration wall of being a freakin island.
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11:21a, 8/9/20
New Zealand is an island with a smaller population than the greater Houston area (approx. 7MM in Houston; 5MM In NZ) and a density of like 48 people per square mile (Houston is approx 3600/sq mile). They are also a healthier society as a whole due to diet and exercise in their climate.

The idea that their largely homogeneous nation (72% white and 25% Maori/Pacific Islander) has an approach which could be replicated in the USA is ludicrous. Just patently absurd.
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11:24a, 8/9/20
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Well it's simple. The virus dies off in the heat. So in the summer you're going to see hotspots in the US along the south.

And in New Zealand, where it's cool during our summer, they aren't going to have any cases.

Make sense?
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11:27a, 8/9/20
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Isn't it amazing how the only cure for COVID is Communism?
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11:28a, 8/9/20
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Antarctica also has extremely low case rate as well. What are they doing differently than us to produce such great results?
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11:30a, 8/9/20
Fiji also has zero cases, IIRC.

How does such a huge, landlocked nation.....oh, wait.....
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In reply to TexAgs91 • 11:31a, 8/9/20
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I believe the virus die off in the Summer ideology only really applies to places that have tolerable summers. If it's too hot, everyone stays indoors which aids in spreading. If it's tolerable, people enjoy being outside and by human nature, they socially distance (to be active you can't be on top of each other).

I think virus spreads entirely based on regional climate conditions due to how the weather dictates where people spend their time (indoor vs outdoors).
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11:35a, 8/9/20
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11:44a, 8/9/20
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All they did was shut down travel to a small island nation that has very little international trade or business then make everyone quarantine.

You still can't go there if you wanted to.

The second Trump shut down travel from China he was racist and the screaming marksists were Out the hugging and French kissing them some COVID

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11:56a, 8/9/20
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How do people consider New Zealand impressive?

Vermont has had the same number of cases and only about 50 deaths.

About 30 million people are surrounding and within 5 hour driving distance of Vermont, who did not close themselves off completely from those 30 million people. The southern border of VT is less than 200 miles from one of the world's largest clustered outbreaks of Covid.

Now that's impressive.

Wyoming has nearly the same death count as New Zealand. They shut down very little and closed themselves off to nobody. In fact, theyve had tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people from across the country streaming into their national parks all summer. Just Wyoming shares an open, drivable border with states populated with 12 million people.

Now that's impressive.

An island nation in the middle of the ocean? Progressives Please!
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11:58a, 8/9/20
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1000 days, no positive cases in my apartment
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In reply to policywonk98 • 11:58a, 8/9/20
policywonk98 said:
How do people consider New Zealand impressive?

Vermont has had the same number of cases and only about 50 deaths.

About 30 million people are surrounding and within 5 hour driving distance of Vermont, who did not close themselves off completely from those 30 million people. The southern border of VT is less than 200 miles from one of the world's largest clustered outbreaks of Covid.

Now that's impressive.

Wyoming has nearly the same death count as New Zealand. They shut down very little and closed themselves off to nobody. In fact, theyve had tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people from across the country streaming into their national parks all summer. Just Wyoming shares an open, drivable border with states populated with 12 million people.

Now that's impressive.

An island nation in the middle of the ocean? Progressives Please!
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In reply to redd38 • 11:59a, 8/9/20
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1000 days, no positive cases in my apartment
My hotel room has been COVID free for almost two months now. Before that, my crib.

Now, I can't say that it has been ho-free that long.
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Close our border with Mexico, and our numbers drop dramatically.
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BigRobSA said:
redd38 said:
1000 days, no positive cases in my apartment
My hotel room has been COVID free for almost two months now. Before that, my crib.

Now, I can't say that it has been ho-free that long.


Now do the hotel room and use a black light. Who hit the ceiling?
Being that my head is like 6" from the ceiling......me?
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In reply to TarponChaser • 12:17p, 8/9/20
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New Zealand is an island with a smaller population than the greater Houston area (approx. 7MM in Houston; 5MM In NZ) and a density of like 48 people per square mile (Houston is approx 3600/sq mile). They are also a healthier society as a whole due to diet and exercise in their climate.

The idea that their largely homogeneous nation (72% white and 25% Maori/Pacific Islander) has an approach which could be replicated in the USA is ludicrous. Just patently absurd.


The population density of Aukland is far larger the Houston.
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They're hiding the fact that more than 45,000 hobbits died from it.
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In reply to Shanked Punt • 12:45p, 8/9/20
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Shanked Punt said:
TarponChaser said:
New Zealand is an island with a smaller population than the greater Houston area (approx. 7MM in Houston; 5MM In NZ) and a density of like 48 people per square mile (Houston is approx 3600/sq mile). They are also a healthier society as a whole due to diet and exercise in their climate.

The idea that their largely homogeneous nation (72% white and 25% Maori/Pacific Islander) has an approach which could be replicated in the USA is ludicrous. Just patently absurd.


The population density of Aukland is far larger the Houston.
Auckland's population density is 3,133.9 per square mile
Houston's population density is 3,842 per square mile
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In reply to TefIon Don • 12:49p, 8/9/20
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Teflon Don. said:
Close our border with Mexico, and our numbers drop dramatically.
Where's Texas' hotspots again?
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In reply to Fat Bib Fortuna • 12:51p, 8/9/20
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Shanked Punt said:
TarponChaser said:
New Zealand is an island with a smaller population than the greater Houston area (approx. 7MM in Houston; 5MM In NZ) and a density of like 48 people per square mile (Houston is approx 3600/sq mile). They are also a healthier society as a whole due to diet and exercise in their climate.

The idea that their largely homogeneous nation (72% white and 25% Maori/Pacific Islander) has an approach which could be replicated in the USA is ludicrous. Just patently absurd.


The population density of Aukland is far larger the Houston.
Auckland's population density is 3,133.9 per square mile
Houston's population density is 3,842 per square mile


Shanked another one.

But also ignores the real factor which was locking down the borders.
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12:54p, 8/9/20
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BLM has spread the Chinese virus (and Chinese communist values) more than anything else in America. New Zealand doesn't have to deal with that *****
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MuckRaker96 said:
They're hiding the fact that more than 45,000 hobbits died from it.


The Scouring of the Shire, indeed.
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Great, now do Sweden:
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Covid hit Stockholm like a storm in mid-March. One day I was seeing people with appendicitis and kidney stones, the usual things you see in the emergency room. The next day all those patients were gone and the only thing coming in to the hospital was covid. Practically everyone who was tested had covid, regardless of what the presenting symtom was. People came in with a nose bleed and they had covid. They came in with stomach pain and they had covid.

Then, after a few months, all the covid patients disappeared. It is now four months since the start of the pandemic, and I haven't seen a single covid patient in over a month. When I do test someone because they have a cough or a fever, the test invariably comes back negative. At the peak three months back, a hundred people were dying a day of covid in Sweden, a country with a population of ten million. We are now down to around five people dying per day in the whole country, and that number continues to drop. Since people generally die around three weeks after infection, that means virtually no-one is getting infected any more.
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Sweden ripped the metaphorical band-aid off quickly and got the epidemic over and done with in a short amount of time, while the rest of the world has chosen to try to peel the band-aid off slowly. At present that means Sweden has one of the highest total death rates in the world. But covid is over in Sweden.
How bad is covid really? (A Swedish doctor's perspective)
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In pictures I've seen accompanying the articles, NOBODY is wearing a mask.
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Island completely isolated and locks down longer than the duration of the the virus. Surprise! It runs its course and is gone. If they have tourism again in the next year, it will be back.
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