What will New Zealand do long term?

[Missingsockswheresotheygo]

What do people think will happen in New Zealand long term?

I initially thought they were in the best position but now I'm not so sure.

A vaccine won't eradicate the virus it will only suppress it to manageable levels (I think?)

But with their population having no immunity will it not just wreak havoc the minute they open their borders?

@Oliversmumsarmy
All the more reason to have acted to contain the spread. A density populated large city is a virus's wet dream.

Several of the Asian countries who sensibly took effective mitigation measures have comparable populations (large densely populated cities) to the UK.

The pandemic has made me see exactly why we got our reputation for being 'whingeing poms'!

our already premium customers realise that they want food that is fresh and covid free

I'm 100% sure the food I am eating in the UK is fresh (where perishable) and covid-free! Where do you get the idea from that food is infected? Don't give over anxious MNers anything else to get worried about.

@Woundedadmiral

Although I don't think that's what a lot of people want to see... They don't want to see it working out for NZ because it means we got it wrong.b they want to see NZ in a bit of a pickle.

Personally I applaud them.

Yeah, I get a sense of that too. I massively applaud them. To help their economy they could also consider letting in long term tourists after 2 week hotel quarantine, I think there would be quite a market for that among retired people / gap years /sabbaticals, given what a pain it is to travel in the rest of the world right now.

SheepandCow Judging just by friends who all had what we now think was Covid in December/January. It was rampant in London and the surrounding area months before anyone even considered that the infection going round was Covid.
By March it was too late.

Looking back in hindsight we should have locked down at the beginning of December.

But did anyone know it was around in December

According to the WHO on I think 23rd January it hadn’t left China at that stage.

Well that was a load of BS

We had a time when there were v low numbers in June. If we had gradually released restrictions, instead of opening the floodgates and encouraging people to go out, we would be better off.