General Discussion
For once I have to agree with leatash - NZ is over 1000 miles from Oz so it was easy to shut the border. We have a land border with another country.
New Zealand locked down early and locked down hard. Plus closed borders. People quarantined. Uk locked down late. Was it a hard lock down? For some no doubt. We were still having planes flying in from heavily infected areas and quarantining (such as it was) stopped weeks back.
And plus New Zealand is 10% larger than the UK so a small population more space less infection.
Not a great comparison population of New Zealand 4,783.063 population of UK 67,886,011 and just to put it in perspective population of London 9,304,016 and plus New Zealand has very strict border controls unlike the UK. And the other point who else will sort it out the world is going into meltdown and no goverment will cope we are heading for the worse recession in living memory and the world is ...
Oh! So bumbling Boris won't be sorting it all out then? Perhaps he could take a leaf out of N. Zealand's approach. Reports saying no new cases there over the past 3 days.
https://www.aol.co.uk/living/2020/05/13/a-100-accuratea-antibody-test-could-be-coronavirus-breakthro/
https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/05/13/coronavirus-sees-uk-economy-plunge-2-in-first-quarter-after-rec/
https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/05/13/coronavirus-unions-threaten-to-stop-trains-if-services-become-t/
My advice to everyone out there prepare for the worst this is far from over my feelings a lot of folk dont understand what is coming, if you thought the banking crisis impacted your lives what is round the corner will be a hundred times worse.
Anybody else see the pictures of the crowded tube yesterday in London? Bit difficult to keep two metres distant from each other. And there were many it would seem who were not wearing masks. For those of us who are retired being in total or relative isolation (although I wouldn't want to be isolated in a care home right now!) is so much easier than for those who are younger. I cannot begin ...