Coronavirus - New Zealand
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@voodoo so why have numbers of people returning increased so much in the past 3 weeks?
Whinny said back in March/April, come home, come how now...why are people only coming home now? THe world is falling apart, lets go back to NZ where they will put me in a hotel for 2 weeks and look after me if I am sick.
They have to do soemthing, I dont have the answer, but if our numbers keep going up the way they are, it is only a matter of time before a breach like the one a couple of weeks back happens again, and may not end as well next time.
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
.why are people only coming home now?
Is that rhetorical? I think attraction to a covid "free" country where you can just go about daily life as normal is huge. 3 months ago we were all facing lockdown and somewhere like the UK was possibly slightly better to be.
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@Bones well as I said I dont have an answer, so yeah pretty much...but why didnt they come back 3 months ago? Did they not see Covid as a real issue?
I expect some have possibly now just lost jobs and decided to bail now, but yeah, some just see it as a great place to go home to.
Thing is, something needs to be done, I am not sure we can cope with the numbers of people arriving everyday, and I expect this will keep going up until just about everyone holding a NZ passport returns.
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@taniwharugby as I said, if we're talking being locked down, I think I'd rather be here. But now I'd quite happily head to NZ if I was in a position to do so. As it is I'm contemplating Aus, which I wasn't 3 months ago...
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@Bones still doenst change the fact that we need to find a way to slow the numbers arriving, otherwise we will end up in the shit...not sure how they would go about trying to make people pay for thier own isolation, might put some off returning, but not all and for those that arrive with no $$$ or no means to pay what do they do then?
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Bones well as I said I dont have an answer, so yeah pretty much...but why didnt they come back 3 months ago? Did they not see Covid as a real issue?
A member of my family is coming back to nz in a few weeks.
He was very close to moving 3 months ago but it wasn’t possible on short notice. The complicating factors were his wife’s job, kids schooling, his wife’s sick family members
The decision was made a while ago. Not everyone can move on short notice
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@Duluth said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Not everyone can move on short notice
I realise that, I dont expect every single one of them is in the same situation, by the same token I am sure everyone probably has a genuine and sound reason for coming back when they are (Last week, last month, next week, next month) and they are entitled to come home, doesnt change what is becoming a problem, it's how we manage this problem that will be key
I'm not saying shut them out, not saying tell them not to come home, as I said, I dont have the answer.
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@taniwharugby White Island isolation camp.
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Bones said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@voodoo make people pay for iso?
So only rich citizens can come home? Eek
Yeah there's so many destitute taking international flights across the Ta$man/Pacific.
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@Bones said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Bones said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@voodoo make people pay for iso?
So only rich citizens can come home? Eek
Yeah there's so many destitute taking international flights across the Ta$man/Pacific.
You don't think there would a few kiwi families on the Gold Coast or similar keen to come home? That was your point earlier wasn't it, NZ is an attractive place rift now for citizens. Why does the banker living in London get to come home but the labourer in the GC doesn't?
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@Bones said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@voodoo why doesn't the labourer in GC?
If you make him pay maybe it's not an option for him?
To clarify, I'm totally fine with a kiwi leaving nz now for a holiday having to pay for their iso on the way home ( if they're even allowed to travel) . That seems only fair.
But people coming back from lives abroad, I'm not sure we should be charging just to slow the rate
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
If you make him pay maybe it's not an option for him?
Well then I guess it's not an option eh! Gotta love those free air fares from the GC eh? Or perhaps there's another option for Mr cash strapped international traveler.
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@Bones said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
If you make him pay maybe it's not an option for him?
Well then I guess it's not an option eh! Gotta love those free air fares from the GC eh? Or perhaps there's another option for Mr cash strapped international traveler.
I'm really not sure what you're saying. Are you implying that a bloke who can afford an airfare of $500 to come home, should also be able to afford a $3k hotel bill for 14 days?