In this thread, many people making judgements based on incorrect facts and ignoring that New Zealand's biggest city had about a years worth of strict lockdown over the 2 year period from 2020-2021. In this thread you'll also find New Zealanders from outside of Auckland commenting about their personal experience on behalf of everyone from the country.
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By contrast USA had over 600,000 preventable deaths due to their utter lack of response... So is this what you would have preferred???
"Grandma and Grandpa have to die for the economy." -Texas
if only. more like we have to milk grandma and grandpa of all their life savings by keeping their miserable asses alive in assisted living for the economy.
[Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick suggests he, other seniors willing to die to get economy going again.
“Those of us who are 70 plus, we’ll take care of ourselves. But don’t sacrifice the country,” Patrick told Tucker Carlson.]
ah, yeah. sorry I kinda skipped your Texas specific part. I was more talking generally and personally.
Is this the non-evil version of "We investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong?"
Well, in the sense that they found that they did do many things wrong in hindsight but that the overall concept was not wrong... no?
I feel that this is when social media really showed how much harm it could do to spread misinformation. Good on NZ.
I’ll never forget watching NZ come out of lockdown and seeing people hug each other while I was still sanitizing groceries.
They were having rugby games while the rest of the world burned down in flames
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Reasonable is great when it comes to this kind of thing.
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