How serious is the infection rate for Covid-19 in the UK?
This serious:
That tweet is from a doctor in the USA.
In New Zealand we are in the very fortunate situation of having no community transmission of the disease – at least none we’re aware of.
Is enough being done to ensure that continues and is enough being done to keep border workers safe?
As the COVID-19 crisis continues to deepen overseas, the National Party warns we’re exposing people to a “totally unacceptable” level of risk at the border.
Four new cases were announced in managed isolation on Monday, and with the threat of two new strains of the virus looming, Judith Collins is telling the Government to start vaccinating now or consider closing the borders.
She’s accusing the Government of playing fast and loose with the new, more infectious strains of COVID-19, and agrees with epidemiologist Michael Baker, who told Newshub on Sunday it’s time to consider closing the borders to some countries.
“I think we are being a bit slow in response to these new, more infectious variants. I think now we have to be very proactive again and take decisive action,” he said.
“At one extreme, unfortunately, I think we may need to look at suspending travel from countries where this new variant is circulating very vigorously.” . .
The government has already announced stricter conditions for returnees:
On Tuesday, the Government announced it will give the Director-General of Health the power to require a negative pre-departure COVID-19 test from all New Zealanders returning to the country – and he will soon do so.
Arrivals from Australia, Antarctica and some Pacific Island nations will be exempt.
Currently, just those returning to New Zealand from the UK or the US have to test negative prior to departure. . .
Now all returnees will have to remain in their hotel rooms until they can be tested on their first day back in New Zealand. . .
These measures will increase the likelihood of catching anyone who is infected and quarantining them sooner, but is it enough?
Citizens always have the right to come home.
Does that mean the government doesn’t have the right to require anyone coming from countries where the disease is rampant to be disease-free before they board a plane to return?
Even if they can, it would take time to to set up and in the meantime highly infectious people are coming home.
Is our border secure enough and are we ready if it’s not?
Homepaddock 
More virus porn to scare the gulliable into complying with the dictats of the ruling class.
You want to be a serf OK, your choice.
Not even the Soviets were able to curtail the freedom of association and movement the way our masters have by spinning an ubiquitous and essentially harmless virus that 99.9% of the population can cope without much difficulty into a major pandemic worse the the fricken black death in peoples minds
And a side benefit is that they are taking out the Petite bourgeoisie by killing off their businesses and livilihoods
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Andrei, a friend in LA reports that ambulances are lining up at hospitals for 8 hours before their patients can be admitted. It’s not just the risk of Covid-19 but the impact on the healths system & all the other people who can’t get diagnosis & treatment that will impact on both their quality & length of life.
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That’s boilerplate doom gloom.- In Orange County there are places which are indistinguishable from the third world where people live and die in utter in squalor on streets and you have to step over used hypodermics and human excrement as you move around
The health facities in these areas are totally inadequate for the population but because of large Federal grants available for treating this particular disease there is a financial inducement to admit and treat people who are be diagnosed with it – many of whom in normal times would develop pneumonia and die in some back alley alone behind a dumpster without anyone giving a shit – sad but true.
Even in New Zealand we moved people from high dependancy units in Rest Homes to hospitals, people who in normal times would die in the rest home surrounded by their loved ones and perhaps a priest without anybody thinking it was anything unusual was going on.
The average length of dtay in a rest home high needs unit in 21st century New Zealand is fourteen months from admission and you leave in a coffin – that is life. And Jacinda Ardern emoting over it if there is a Covid-19 diagnoses involved wont change a thing
Every winter respiratory viruses flourish, vunerable people develop pneumonia and fill the hospitals . With modern medicine they may recover and go home, until it happens again!
Well run hospitals are prepared for the winter influx and cope, badly run ones struggle. How you look at it is all in the narrative
If this disease had not been given a lable and there wasn’t a test for it then nobody would think there was anything unusual going on
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