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Topic: Learning Lessons - for the next one.Posted By: Technophobe
Subject: Learning Lessons - for the next one.
Date Posted: March 31 2021 at 2:23am
Covid: The countries that nailed it, and what we can learn from them
Published
22 March
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Replies: Posted By: carbon20
Date Posted: March 31 2021 at 4:33am
I did see this ,don't think Australia got a mention...
And here in western Australia I believe we have done the best job in the world ,all down to our Premier Mark McGowan....and the citizens 98.5%behind him.....
I'd buy him a beer anytime.....
Take care all ๐ท๐
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Marcus Aurelius
Posted By: KiwiMum
Date Posted: March 31 2021 at 2:11pm
The article says no country got it right but I'd say NZ did. We did all of the things outlined, and we did them fast and as a result we have no Covid. It might seem hard to believe but life here is normal except for a restriction on overseas travel. I can fly overseas but I might not be able to get back easily because of the limited number of spaces in managed isolation quarantine. We get the odd outbreak here and then we have localised lock downs for 4 to 7 days, and we eliminate it and get back to normal. And fyi, our economy is booming.
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Posted By: carbon20
Date Posted: March 31 2021 at 2:40pm
Same here ,no Covid economy booming......
Why would you want to travel KiwiMum,you live in a fantastic place ,same as me ,our house prices are soaring.....same as NZ.....peeps just realised you need to live in a safe , isolated place .......
Take care all ๐ท๐
------------- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.๐
Marcus Aurelius
Posted By: KiwiMum
Date Posted: April 01 2021 at 1:47pm
Apparently NZ has been inundated with people applying for residency from all over the world. And same goes for Australia in managing it well. We're lucky that we both live in amazing countries that are worth seeing so we can holiday at home. There's so much to see and do.
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Posted By: Technophobe
Date Posted: April 01 2021 at 5:32pm
I don't think it was possible for any leader to achieve a perfect score.
New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, South Korea and Vietnam all did amazingly well.
I would swap my government for any one of those in a heartbeat - even Vietnam's. I think I would like Jacinda best, but that is nit-picking.
Now who wants Boris Johnson? ................................. Any takers? .......................... No? Oh well. :(
------------- How do you tell if a politician is lying? His lips or pen are moving.
Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 01 2021 at 9:50pm
Maybe polar bears want bojo ?
"Learning lessons" has the basic-wrong-idea pandemics are something new...The big questions are why did we not stop the virus spreading after the Wuhan-lockdown ? Techno-if i remember well it was you who warned already in the end of 2019 for a virus spreading in China...
"the west" loves to blame China...even while at least part of the problem is that that west ignored a lot of Chinese publications on this virus from the early start. Basicly the "western" idea is that everything has to be published in English...or you "are hiding info".
Even "intel" did a very bad job ! Did "security" not know what was happening at the end of 2019 ? Do they have billions of $ to spend-but spend it on furniture and computer games ? To many managers competing with eachother in how large their staff is ? If you have two secretaries I need three...
We know how to stop a pandemic-why did we not do it ? Who is making lots of money out of it ? That is the hard question !
------------- We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. ~Albert Einstein