@Crucial said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Anonymous said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@Crucial said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
We still don’t know if this resurgence is from incompetence at the border or from other reasons. A simple incorrect test result could be a reason and why things are not foolproof.
If a simple incorrect test result can have this big of an impact on the country, wouldn't it make sense to have another test or two? Seems like incompetence to me for someone to make this sort of oversight...
It’s called risk mitigation. Testing is not 100% perfect. The combination of time and testing for those in isolation has an extremely good chance of picking up the infected. But if someone was asymptomatic and there was a test error on their sample they could easily move out to infect. Nothing is perfect.
What are you suggesting? If one more test then why not two more, or three more?
For all the outcry about iso workers and tests, where’s the cases? Maybe because precautions are being used that reduce risk?
As I keep saying I will be happy to join the pile on if an avoidable incompetency is the cause of this cluster. I m just not joining in based on fear and assumed blame.
If it was inevitable or even reasonably likely that we'd get cases in the community again, and this was obvious before it happened, then it was known that the risks weren't being well mitigated.
We were able to eliminate the virus within NZ, so it's definitely possible to prevent it from getting back into community. It's all about how much risk is acceptable.
If you believe that there's a realistic chance that it happened because someone asymptomatic got an incorrect result, then you should be wanting people in quarantine/managed isolation to be tested more or have to stay longer.
But to me, the method of how it happened doesn't really absolve the government of responsibility if it was almost guaranteed to happen with the levels of risk being deemed acceptable. It's just splitting hairs. Regardless of whether it's from an isolation worker, an incorrect test result, or some other realistic means, it's gone through the government's systems that should be in place to prevent it from happening.
So the way I see it, it's either incompetence or they see us having lockdowns every couple of months as acceptable. If it's the later, then that also raises a lot of questions about their competence.