New Zealand Entering Lockdown Following Just One Positive Covid Test
When a single positive Covid test result was reported in Canberra, Australia, earlier this month, the city locked down for a week. New Zealand has gone one step further, with the reporting of one positive test resulting in the whole country being plunged into lockdown. BBC News has the story.
The case was detected in Auckland, which will be in lockdown for a week, while the rest of the country will be in lockdown for three days.
Authorities say they are working on the assumption that the new case was the Delta variant.
Just around 20% of its population has been fully vaccinated.
Coromandel, a coastal town where the infected person had visited, will be in lockdown for seven days too.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the toughest “Level Four” rules were required – closing schools, offices and all businesses with only essential services remaining operational.
“I want to assure New Zealand that we have planned for this eventuality. Going hard and early has worked for us before,” she said.
The patient is a 58 year-old man, who is believed to have been infectious since last Thursday.
There are at least 23 potential sites of transmission.
There was reportedly a rush at supermarkets in Auckland, as locals anticipated a snap lockdown.
Officials said there was a need for strong response because of the fear of the Delta variant, and because there was no clear link between the new case and the border or quarantine facilities.
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“Officials said there was a need for strong response because of the fear of the Delta variant”
so this is about making kiwis ‘feel’ safer
lol!
Safety is Fear
Risk is Caution
Coercion is Liberty
We have always been at lockdown for viruses
If Authoritarians Taught Self Help!
I was told categorically on Twitter by somebody living in NZ (or was it Aus) that they are not living in fear – when I suggested the opposite. So somebody is telling porkies.
or are deluded.
or drunk on their self-righteousness.
Am I allowed to call her a stupid woman?
She’s beyond a joke at this point.
No, she would have to give up her ‘Sainthood’ first! Then, by all means!
She’s not stupid.
She was reckless: going all-in on the 100% sterile immunity providing vaccine solution, without any plan B.
As this is falling apart, but with no alternative exit, so much sunk-cost, far too early reverence snd celebration and many p*ss*ng contest stats leads at stake, she has now quite inevitably become insane.
Well, I agree with most of that: it’s just the ‘become’ in the last sentence over which I have my doubts.
This insanity is basically the risk of any dictatorship – once you’ve become a dictator, it is self-perpetuating, you must suppress your “enemies” if only out of fear of retribution. And the more damage you do, the more retribution awaits you and the more incentive you have to be even more paranoid.
The good old law of unintended consequences. Except… from the start it was clear to everyone with a bit of common sense that it was an incredibly risky strategy to believe in a vaccine and that zero Covid was possible, let alone desirable. They put all their eggs in the vaccine basket and it’s not going to work.
No, she’s very queenly. Jacinda Cnut bids the Covid waves retreat, but, alas! they disobey her.
She is the antithesis of Cnut. He bade the waves cease in the knowledge that he wouldn’t succede, demonstrating that even a king was not God.
This, on the other hand, actually believes the waves can be stopped, and by God, they will be stopped no matter what the price others have to pay.
You may, but I don’t think it’s at all fair.
She is only following orders, and will doubtless be well rewarded for it.
Let’s please not confuse evil with stupidity.
Call her an evil woman. Stupid would be a … kind word
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The eventual revenge won’t be as emollient. Hopefully.
Amazing isn’t it? How one person can control 5 million people all to save their own backside.
What happens the next time they get one case, when it’s been proven time and again vaccines don’t stop anyone spreading or catching it?
ARE PEOPLE THAT FUCKING DUMB???
A slimy evil baggage would be more accurate.
NZ and Australia, like the Labour Party, are there to remind us of the truth of the aphorism: “it could always be worse”.
I keep trying to deliver good news on the state of affairs in Lockdownunder, but damn, it’s not getting easier.
“Police have warned anyone planning to take part in more anti-lockdown rallies to expect massive fines or jail time.”
On the upside – the quoted number of 3,500 who attended the July protest; I’ve heard quotes from eyewitness sources that put the true figure between 25-35,000.
Don’t believe that people aren’t resisting here. I saw a great quote from Abraham Lincoln yesterday – “Nobody ever kicks a dead dog.”
Let’s see what happens next weekend.
Why are the police not defecting? The Taliban just showed everyone how to sort out matters with the “police”.
There is a group Cops For Covid Truth, which seems to have gone underground, although their website is still operational.
The same threats were made against demonstrators in London. Some were arrested (such as Piers Corbyn) in the early protests, but by April the protests had got so large that the police knew they didn’t stand a chance trying to pick people out from the crowd, and so left them alone.
Yes indeed, and it will be!
What’s the difference between Labour and the Tories?
The same as the difference between Omo and Tide. Both made in the same factory, but with slight packaging differences to fool the ‘consumer’ that there are differences between them.
Pretty much. But that doesn’t mean there’s “no difference between left and right” or any of the other simplifications people tend to resort to.
The problem is that both parties represent the same globalist, leftist elites and share the same elite ideologies, and neither represents the interests of the majority. Both are Blairite.
The answer is “populism”, which is the denigratory term that elites have always use for politics and politicians they feel threatened by. Trump and Brexit were both representations of populist uprisings against the dominant elites, as are the yellow shirts in France. “Populists” (the good guys) are the reason the US Republican Party is at least in part resistant to the covid panic agenda pushed by the elites.
We need to find a way to organise and represent populists here. Perhaps new parties like Reform, Reclaim and Heritage are the way forward, perhaps not. We shall see.
Two brands, one party, zero choice.
Meanwhile in Sweden, “cases” continue at a low level, with no COVID-attributed deaths since the end of July. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
New Zealand and Australia are the basket cases of the world. They must realise that they are becoming laughing stocks? Perhaps they don’t…it appears that the public and media back them to the hilt.
The media certainly do. They have the same issues over declining revenues as the MSM elsewhere; government dollars paying for advertising are keeping them afloat.
and Gates
We have a nephew and his young family living in Melbourne. I wouldn’t say they are backing their government to the hilt.
Victims of their own cowardice and stupid radical pseudoreligious decisions, all they can do now is keep piling them up higher while reaffirming faith. This has happened practically everywhere, but Australia/New Zealand are great “advanced” examples of where this road leads to.
Ardern gave the mainstream media 50 million dollars just prior to the last election and promised another 70 million afterwards if they were elected. The NZ people are mostly decent but naive people who in the main, trust their politicians. There are plenty who don’t agree and oppose but you will hear almost nothing about it due to the media support for Ardern which is bought and paid for.
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2020/04/govt_gives_50_million_to_media.html
Google Voices for Freedom NZ to check out one of the opposition groups doing great work.
My family and friends in NZ love Jacinda. They feel she has saved them from a deadly disease which is ravaging the rest of the world. They are very happy that the borders are closed and look down on the rest of the world that didn’t have as good leadership as Jacinda. They are very proud of their covid success. They’ve been able to live normal lives for most of the last 17 months while the rest of the world has been in lockdown. They have collective indignation at the occasional selfish person who spreads covid in the community, but they are very happy sacrifice their freedom in order to shut themselves in their comfortable bungalows and have a nice little holiday at home. After all, this will keep everyone safe from the raging plague that is covid.
Anger is an energy. Don’t let the globalist psychopaths win. Don’t comply. Ditch the masks. Protect the children. Updated website with useful information, resources and links: https://www.LCAHub.org/
They are/she is mad- as proven by that picture alone.
And as ever when one fights against windmills, it can and will only end in a disaster.
As per the picture, she is the queen of virtue signaling and PR.
Has she not heard that the vaccines don’t prevent infection or transmission?
Poor Kiwis. I guess it’s an awfully long swim to get anywhere more sensible.
This. So, what is their exit plan. They can vaccinate the whole population, and then as soon as they open up, ker-bam, off it goes. OK, so if we believe the narrative, that will massively reduce deaths, but its gonna be a real hard sell for the government.
Yes, what is their exit plan? The whole country is in thralls with Jacinda for closing the borders and keeping them safe. I can’t imagine the people ever wanting the borders reopened again. They are happy in their isolation. I wonder how all the industries that relied on foreign visitors and open borders are doing?
Insanity!!
So when no more cases materialise it will be taken as evidence of the success of their ‘snap lockdown’ and the cycle repeats ad infinitum, what a brilliant strategy this is.
And if more cases materialise, it will be the fault of those who aren’t “following the rules”, and/or because even more draconian rules are needed. There is no outcome which will lead them to the conclusion that the path they are following is futile.
It is without doubt in my mind that this is being used as a tactic to bring pressure on those who choose not to get the vaccination. They are not getting anywhere near the numbers taking it as they want. This will cause those who are vaccinated to blame the unvaccinated. Yet in reality, it’s the other way around. Those who got vaccinated find it easier to travel overseas. We now know they can still catch covid and still transmit it. THEY are the ones who will bring it back to the country and infect everyone else.
Ardern is completely and utterly irrational. A complete fraud who relies on spin and propaganda. Watch her mannerisms next time you see her on TV. She has the same set of gestures every time to indicate her “empathy” and when she gets “serious” followed by her ingratiating smile. She makes me want to throw up in my mouth.
This sort of reaction still leaves very much to be desired. The entity governing New Zealand should really announce “hard lockdowns” whenever there’s a positive test result anywhere in the world, as – sooner or later – this will lead to a positive test result in New Zealand. They’ll never eradicate COVID globally if they don’t become much more proactive about it.
they should lock down the country whenever anyone is tested – to wait for the results.
Nah, nuke the whole country: that’ll really show the world how to wipe out the virus!
Like the US army in Vietnam. “We had to destroy the village to save it from falling into the enemy’s hands”…..!
😂😂😂 There’s no cure for stupid.
There really isn’t, is there? I mean, serious WTF?
You can only mask it.
Are there sufficient masks for this case?
how is it even legal for them to close schools and businesses and shut everyone in their homes because 1 person has a cold?
they are making the Taleban look reasonable
The Taliban are pretty reasonable: They just won a major war while the invaders (as seen from their perspective) were occupied with discussing the proper use of the proper kind of face coverings.
The West needs to kick itself up the arse. Everything we buy is made by Chinese slaves, everything we wear is made by Bangladeshi slaves. The Taleban at least lets some kids go to school.
disgraceful
Exactly – we are no better than the Taliban, we’ve just outsourced our slavery and human rights abuse instead of doing it directly.
Please don’t insult the Taliban by comparing them to the UK regime. They didn’t spend £350 million sponsoring Wahabbist terrorists (sorry ‘carefully vetted moderate rebel’ head-choppers) to destroy Syria. They didn’t take down Libya, leaving an ISIS-infested slave market in its stead. They didn’t train and support yer actual real mckoy Neo-Nazis in Ukraine to ethnically cleanse east Ukraine of its Russian speaking Ukraine citizens. Etc, etc.
I have worked in a Chinese factory in the past (as developer of a partner company) and while the Chinese (or some Chinese) are always keen on telling gruesome stories about how much they work, I assure I was the only person there doing more than 8 hours per day and more than 5 days per week.
its not that aspect that makes them slaves. ‘off to gulag’ for complaining and no democratic representation
its not how much you work that makes you a slave. its the power relationship between you and your rulers/owners
So they have Zero Time contracts too?
They let some kids go to school?? Are you sure? Which school, the Taliban training school?
Looking at the pictures of those Taliban chappies in Kabul, I wondered when someone from the departing US contingent, or perhaps the UN, would ask them to socially distance and don’t forget to wear masks indoors.
They just don’t seem to ‘fear’ the dreaded virus enough.
Afghanistan also never made any Corona-headlines so far, despite neighbouring countries certainly did. This calls up parallells with 1918-1920 in Germany again: Nobody feels like playacting a deadly epidemic when there’s a civil war in the country. According to contemporary sources, the so-called Spanish flu did not happen in Germany, ie, it went unmentioned.
Interesting. Could it be that the Spanish flu didn’t happen in Germany because the Germans didn’t have the wherewithal to vaccinate their troops? I once read that the majority of Spanish flu deaths were in the young and vaccinated, specifically US soldiers returned from Europe. I can’t give a source, unfortunately.
That seems to be their main advantage (in numbers): they don’t fear. It’s also a disadvantage for every individual fearless tali-asshat when it comes to own survival, but hey, it’s more important that the war is won, and heavenly rewards await, right?
Fear is a useful part of the mechanism humans use to overcome dangers.
Sun Tzu writes something about fearless warriors, specifically the stupid man doesn’t fear death, a quality which makes him useful to a wise general despite his stupidity. But an army entirely composed of stupid people who don’t fear death will certainly get wiped-out quickly. Methinks you’re confusing fear and cowardice, ie, being exclusively controlled by one’s fears.
I admit that I was afraid of Sars-CoV2 when this nonsense started last year. An attempt at assessing the situation rationally lead to the following: The idea that it’s possible to hide from an airborne virus in perpetuity while still partaking in something resembling a normale life, be it just shopping in supermarkets and meeting strangers outdoors, is obviously ridiculous. I will not be able to do that. Hence, the only realistic option is carry on, see how it goes and hope for the best.
So far, this has worked.
[I hate using myself as an example but don’t know of another one at the moment.]
They are also in their own country. No matter what happens, time is on the side of the home player. Eventually the invader goes home. As the Taliban quipped, the US occupiers can go home vertically or horizontally, but either way they will go home.
“they are making the Taleban look reasonable“
Oh come now, the Taliban were rightly excoriated for destroying old statues in a fanatical attempt to “erase all traces” of a past they regarded as wicked. The BBC was moved recently, on that topic, to talk about the importance of “cultural heritage” and how the broken fragments are a reminder of the Taliban’s “extremist beliefs”. Other interventionists highlighted it as “cultural genocide“.
That kind of fanatical political zealotry and vandalism could surely never happen here, and certainly would never be quietly approved of by the oh so achingly good clerisy of the BBC…….
Strangely ,the BBC didn’t exhibit the same attachment to ‘old statues’ and cultural heritage here at home.
Actually the Taliban dynamited the Bamiyan Buddhas as an act of spite, because they were outraged that UNESCO was planning to spend $millions to restore said statues while Afghans were starving from the impact of economic sanctions.
Yes, but the UK gov is no different.
Remind me, how many jabs is “fully vaccinated” again?
In typical Corona-manner, the answer is “We don’t know this yet, so, we better proceed very cautiously backwards.” 🙂
One more than you’ve already had, citizen. Always one more.
One more than the last number suggested.
I’m imagining a sign as you exit the vaccination center after your jab: “Fully vaccinated after next injection.”
One more than you have at any particular time.
Welllllllllll,,,,,,,,,,has it been 3 months since you had your last jab? Whoops……
In the spirit of trans-Tasman rivalry, I’ll see your Jacinda Ardern and raise you Brad Hazzard – New South Wales Minister For Health And Prolonged Drama Queening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlZgvY-zHIc
Imagine if a foreign nation had invaded and was doing this. Oh wait.
One of my brothers lives in New Zealand, God help him.
I have a SiL and her family over in Christchurch. We loved visiting them over there but sadly it’s looking highly likely we’ll never go again.
I’m surprised the waves haven’t washed Christchurch into the sea.
Confuscious say: he who builds on reclaimed land in an earthquake zone is one hell of a brainless fsckwit.
So very true. I don’t know why anyone would still live in Christchurch.
I don’t know if anyone really “lives” there any more, beyond mere existence.
I suspect Ardern does alright.
There’s always a Gn meeting or a Davos event that has to be attended. I’m amazed she has time to deal with mere plebs like the average New Zealander.
She’s priming herself for her shot at the UN. She’s a fanatical adherent to all of their policies. Her mentor, Aunty Helen Clark had a shot a few years ago but missed out. Ardern is her protege.
And so it will go on, probably for ever.
This will never end. For anyone with family in NZ, prepare yourself for a long wait before you see them in the flesh.
I’ve already told my UK family that as things are I will never be able to go and see them again. I hate those responsible for this crime against people that they are committing.
I generally say ‘never say never again’ (even though it was a crap Bond film) but unless we have a radical change in global governance and mindset I think overseas travel for anyone other than the elites is going to be very difficult for the foreseeable future.
What exactly is the endgame here according to Jacinda? You cannot eliminate a virus particularly if you open the borders even with a leaky vaccine.
Hold on until the next election before this shit blows up would be my guess. After all, democratic politicians rarely think beyond elections.
Delete the last two words and you’re spot on.
Maybe the endgame is that they’ll be reopened in the 23rd century by some futuristic version of Commodore Perry. 😉
She’s never going to open the borders… (my guess)
We must fight – Justice will prevail if we stick to our principles!!
Justice??? £17,000 Fine CANCELLED By Judge This Is An AMAZING Development… (Mr Belfield
actually on good form today – apologies to any Guardian reading, left footing, quiche eating or whatever else he says)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EEBq8kTtsQ
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Nuttier than Chinese Chicken Salad. Trouble is, Australia and New Zealand have gone so far down the zero Covid rabbit hole they can’t back up.
Mind you, as I write this, the radio has yet another item about the horrors of Long Covid. No sign of the madness ending anytime soon.
At least they serve as a cautionary tale to the world what NOT to do. Let’s hope.
Nothing to do with the phantom C1984.
Reset.
Is she keeping it ‘safe’ for the rich people who are buying their NZ Panic properties for whatever reason
And to think “our ode mon” (my dad) wanted to emigrate to New Zealand in the 50’s!!!
By leddy, am dun wi’em (as my grandad would’ve said)
Exposing the real Jacinda Ardern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3znahD-f5lo
What was the amplification of cycle thresholds New Zealand? Emperor Fauci stated last year anything over 35 is useless.
Drop it to 25, get better results, less false positives, less cases and… oh wait it is part of a bigger plan. See you all after 2025/26 folks.
Don’t worry China will fund the country so the New Zealanders have nothing to worry about, their leader has taken good care of the situation.
NZ on full lockdown, even the children of essential workers. What’s her aim when the economy is completely trashed? Sounds as if she has lost it, does she look at other countries that are living normally?
NZ really must learn from Europe and the USA — they’re not doing nearly enough testing to identify all the horrible covid risks for their population. I’d suggest an immediate tenfold rise in the number of daily cases identified, working to five times higher again over the coming weeks — this would get cases up a bit, and then perhaps they could get more people into facemasks, get more children out of school, get more of those pesky small businesses into financial difficulty and, most importantly of all, get more jabs into arms.