General Discussion
and then of course another difference between the UK and NZ is in the quality of the leadership. We have bumbling, blustering, Boris. "One critical success factor that is, unfortunately, harder to guarantee is high-quality political leadership. The brilliant, decisive and humane leadership of Ardern was instrumental in New Zealand’s rapid change in direction with its response to Covid-19 ...
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.