{"id":223610,"date":"2022-02-26T09:23:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T14:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/z3news.com\/w\/?p=223610"},"modified":"2022-02-28T15:15:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T20:15:35","slug":"the-glorious-flop-of-new-zealand-virus-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/z3news.com\/w\/the-glorious-flop-of-new-zealand-virus-control\/","title":{"rendered":"The Glorious Flop of New Zealand Virus Control"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An infuriatingly consistent aspect of the mainstream media\u2019s COVID coverage was their determination to prematurely credit a country with a wildly successful set of policy interventions.<\/p>\n

While there has been no track record of universally accurate predictions or expectations, the desire to claim victory as far back as spring 2020 has led to subsequent embarrassments as trends change.<\/p>\n

Naturally, New Zealand is no stranger to such untimely praise, with the BBC <\/em>in July 2020 doing an in-depth look<\/a> at how New Zealand became \u201cCOVID free.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, it was because New Zealand \u201c\u2026locked down early and aimed for elimination\u201d and achieved \u201ceffective communication and public compliance.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is really the whole problem in a nutshell, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Assuming that elimination was possible through effective communication, compliance and early lockdowns ignores the inevitably that COVID will eventually spread throughout the population, whenever you \u201copen up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elimination of COVID throughout the world is and always was impossible, and therefore Fauci\u2019s assertion that COVID could be \u201celiminated in certain countries\u201d was inane and virtually impossible.<\/p>\n

So how successful has New Zealand been in eliminating COVID in the long term through effective communication, public compliance and early lockdowns?<\/p>\n

Well. The numbers speak for themselves.<\/p>\n

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When the BBC<\/em> wrote the article explaining New Zealand\u2019s remarkable success in eliminating the virus, they were averaging 1.5 cases each day. It\u2019s now 2,918 cases each day.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s an increase of nearly 195,000%.<\/p>\n

Elimination is a pipe dream.<\/p>\n

No matter what policy interventions they\u2019ve added, no matter how many early lockdowns they\u2019ve tried, COVID has not been eliminated.<\/p>\n

Remember how New Zealand\u2019s amazing tracking and tracing system allowed them to identify transmission that could have only occurred via aerosols? And recall how all of the pre-pandemic guidance on masking suggested that masks could not stop aerosols? Did that stop New Zealand from using mask mandates to try and continue their elimination goals?<\/p>\n

Of course not!<\/p>\n

The following are the currently enforced rules on face masks in New Zealand<\/a>:<\/p>\n