I pit the naive, optimistic idiots, the Pollyannas, weasel-wordy authorities and bad planners associated with the pandemic

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@Novelty_Bobble

And yet still, even you can’t keep it out. Even with those stringent restrictions it gets in and it spreads and it kills in every country in the world. There is no avoiding it.
NZ tried for zero covid and that has proved impossible, that’s with the most successful attempt inthe world. Even they are learning to live with it and so must everyone else.

…less than 50 deaths @Novelty_Bobble. Less than 50 deaths in over two years of the pandemic.

I’m sick of this complete and utter bullshit from people wishing for our deaths. Our stringent restrictions have kept us safe. Its kept our hospital systems from being overrun. Our suicide rates are lower. Our unemployment rates are at record lows. Our economy, in the face of a global pandemic, is robust.

We never tried for zero covid. That’s Northern Hemisphere Bullshit. We’ve had a "stop-as-many-people-from-dying-from-covid-strategy. And it works.

@Novelty_Bobble

“Lockdowns” have already fallen out of favour with the latest iterations being watered down and shorter because the public simply won’t take them long term.
The same will be true for all other restrictions. At some point people say (and I already hear it loud and long) What is the point of vaccinations, treatments and restrictions if there is no end in sight?

Since you haven’t kept up: New Zealand transitioned away from lockdowns several weeks ago. We now have the Traffic Light Protection Framework, which was designed to minimise spread through a combination of mask and vaccine mandates and vaccine passports. (However, lockdowns are not ruled out in the future if needed because…we aren’t fucking stupid.)

@Novelty_Bobble

That is a very valid point and it will be harder and harder for any country to justiify social restrictions as time goes on and there will be more and more rebellion against them.

The last thing we need right now is advice from Plague Island. How many people died there today? 172? You lost over 3 times as many people in a single day than we have lost in two years. You don’t have a clue what you are talking about.