Nz Draconian Covid Measures

[webbo3]

I thought NZ and Jacinda Ardern were doing brilliantly, if so why the need for this.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12331547

\\A bill giving police sweeping powers to potentially enter homes without warrants while enforcing Covid-19 alert level rules has passed.//

\\That might include, for example, the ability for police or "enforcement officers" to close certain premises or roads, ban certain types of travel or congregations, or require people to be physically distant or to stay at home in their bubbles if necessary.//

\\It also would allow warrantless searches of private property if there was a reasonable belief that the alert level rules were being broken.//

[Old_Geezer]

"rushed through Parliament" probably explains a lot.

So another nation abandons western style freedoms. How do these folk get into parliament ?

[cashier]

Four new cases all in the same household and Jacinda is another one who thinks she can control the virus and make it go away. My son lives there, made redundant, his wife was as well and they lost the rent from the person renting a room. Three incomes lost in one go and she thinks the economy will pick up. Too much power it's gone to her head.

[ichkeria]

It’s like when you think you’ve packed everything pack in the picnic basket.
Then you find the mustard pot. You are going to be cross!
As I said before, this shows the pointlessness of trying to lock the thing down out of existence

[New Judge]

Yes agree with all of the above. And the measures taken demonstrate the hysteria that has gripped erstwhile sensible people when it comes to dealing with this.

I said in another thread earlier that NZ had enforced one of the most stringent set of measures in the civilised world. In doing so they trashed large parts of their economy, in particular their tourist industry on which they depend heavily. When will politicians learn that they cannot eradicate this virus by locking people away?

[jno]

three months ago, going by the date on the story. How's it working?

[david small]

Poor NZ led by the fearful and the ignorant. Sounds familiar. You can’t imprison a virus once rampant.

[waterboatman]

Ina word. Disgraceful!