New Zealand Marks 100 Days of No Virus!!! Trump Marks 5 Million Cases!
Life is back to normal in New Zealand! Packed sports stadium and sitting inside restaurants and bars without fear of being infected.
Rigorous and quick testing stopped the virus in its tracks as those who were infected were isolated. For the past three months, the only new cases have been a handful of returning travelers who have been quarantined at the border.
“It was good science and great political leadership that made the difference,” said professor Michael Baker, an epidemiologist at the University of Otago. “If you look around the globe at countries that have done well, it's usually that combination.”
He said many leaders saw a false dichotomy between saving lives or saving their economies, when in fact businesses thrive best when they have certainty about things like diseases.
Indeed, New Zealand's economy has fared better than many predicted. The country has managed to keep its unemployment rate at just 4%.
Total infections were limited to just over 1,500 and the country has had just 22 deaths. Opinion polls indicate support for Ardern's liberal Labour Party has surged ahead of a general election next month.
Meanwhile, the U.S. has suffered 162,000 deaths and 5.1 million cases under the senile nutcase in the White House who called coronavirus "the hoax" for months, failed to scale-up testing, promotes stupidity over science like injecting disinfectant and the useless and dangerous hydroxychloroquine and attacking his own medical officials like Dr. Fauci.
Big difference between strong leadership in New Zealand and inept incompetence from Trump.