Coronavirus - New Zealand
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Hopefully this is a rapidly spreading urban myth - but I have heard from three sources in the last 30 minutes that NZ is going into lockdown from tomorrow.
I find it hard to credit TBH unless they know its out in the community and they think they've lost control.
Otherwise it sounds like an alarming and unnecessary escalation.
id like to think they will give us more notice then that.
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Hopefully this is a rapidly spreading urban myth - but I have heard from three sources in the last 30 minutes that NZ is going into lockdown from tomorrow.
I find it hard to credit TBH unless they know its out in the community and they think they've lost control.
Otherwise it sounds like an alarming and unnecessary escalation.
That would be madness on current numbers..unless testers have discovered something that isn't public knowledge right now.
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Hopefully this is a rapidly spreading urban myth - but I have heard from three sources in the last 30 minutes that NZ is going into lockdown from tomorrow.
I find it hard to credit TBH unless they know its out in the community and they think they've lost control.
Otherwise it sounds like an alarming and unnecessary escalation.
That's rampant in Australia. Was supposed to be today, now it's tomorrow.
So many people with relatives in the defence force... -
@Siam said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Hopefully this is a rapidly spreading urban myth - but I have heard from three sources in the last 30 minutes that NZ is going into lockdown from tomorrow.
I find it hard to credit TBH unless they know its out in the community and they think they've lost control.
Otherwise it sounds like an alarming and unnecessary escalation.
That's rampant in Australia. Was supposed to be today, now it's tomorrow.
So many people with relatives in the defence force...Not to mention speech writers for the PM!
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Virgil all travel related - still no community transmission
Travelling does seem to be the riskiest move for kiwis.
We just had the same discussion with our son and partner, who cr=urrently feel that they are safer taking precautions in London than going to airports, planes, transiting etc to get home. Add in the real possibility that you could get stranded part way with no direct flights to NZ from UK and the argument makes sense (at the moment) -
@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Hopefully this is a rapidly spreading urban myth - but I have heard from three sources in the last 30 minutes that NZ is going into lockdown from tomorrow.
I find it hard to credit TBH unless they know its out in the community and they think they've lost control.
Otherwise it sounds like an alarming and unnecessary escalation.
Although the above article has Jacinda dismissing it, I'm hearing the same - probably not a complete lockdown but I suspect they may close schools next week given it's close to the holidays anyway, I think that would make sense.
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I guess closing schools and shutting down businesses is a bit like going off for rain in cricket. You delay going off for as long as you can, because once you go off it needs to have stopped raining and dried out before you can come back on.
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@dogmeat and how many of those are dumb arses who should have not got on the plane at all or isolated on touch down.
The incubation period is the hard one. You can have no symptoms yet be carrying so no reason not to follow advice and get home.
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Some of these people would not have had any symptoms while travelling or when they arrived in NZ. Two of the new cases yesterday arrived 10-14 days ago. That's why the self-isolation is so important because if you do test positive you aren't interacting with other people in the interim.
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@Crucial but a good portion of them either didn't feel well or just got off plane and carried on like normal, particularly those in the past week or so.
Apparently NZ travel advice raised to highest level, do not travel
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Indoor gatherings of 100 or more banned now, but does not apply to schools, workplaces, supermarkets, or public transport. Looks like they're trying to stagger the response as much as possible.
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@No-Quarter said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Hopefully this is a rapidly spreading urban myth - but I have heard from three sources in the last 30 minutes that NZ is going into lockdown from tomorrow.
I find it hard to credit TBH unless they know its out in the community and they think they've lost control.
Otherwise it sounds like an alarming and unnecessary escalation.
Although the above article has Jacinda dismissing it, I'm hearing the same - probably not a complete lockdown but I suspect they may close schools next week given it's close to the holidays anyway, I think that would make sense.
Listening to Boris Johnson today I see that they are closing schools except for students whose parents are involved in critical industry ie Nurses/doctors. That makes a hell of a lot of sense to me, I hope NZ follows course with that one.