New Zealand ratcheting up the crazy.
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New Zealand locked down hard and it's an island so they were able to keep the infection out.
Now the vaccines are worn off and useless without continual boosters and they have near zero natural immunity so they are panicked about it getting started there.
What they should be doing is inviting God's gift of omicron into their country because it's close enough to give immunity to bad covid, but future endemic covids will be enough different to not protect from read covid. Years from now real covid will sneak in and decimate them. They'll get it from eating some chinese chicken or just some rando will fly in sick from wherever Delta is still lurking.
They've basically done everything wrong, all while the faucists praise them as being the smart ones.
If they would let Omicron in right now, you could at least make an argument that their approach had some advantages. At the cost of 2 years of paranoia, they prevented the coronavirus from getting in until most people could be vaccinated and a more benign variant emerged.
To do this now is madness though. Precisely because the current vaccine' protection against infection declines rapidly. I guess they could be waiting for a special Omicron vaccine, but that is a very high cost, dubious reward proposition.
Of course, I'm talking rubbish, because none of this is about public health, but a dry-run for tyranny.
In NZ's case it isn't a dry run.