It has worked a treat in island nations like Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand.
But a couple of months of hard lockdown followed by zero Covid cases and zero Covid deaths is tempting.
And a lot more than that.Vaccines.
New Zealand has no land border with another country. We do. Their nearest neighbour is over 4,000Km away. That's 1000Km longer than the distance from Ireland to North America.New Zealand will eventually vaccinate everybody. But they’re in no hurry. There’s no rush. In 12 months time they’ll be able to get the best vaccine they want, and get it for a relative bargain.
Smallpox has been eradicated globally since 1978.Ireland is Zero TB and Zero Small Pox today.
Zero Covid is the same concept.
It's also soooo NEPHT, Professor Philip Nolan, Dr. Tony Holohan, Leo Varadkar and Paul Reid. Reid said that the discussion was frustrating and the idea was just "displaced anger".I’m in favour of Zero Covid. I find “living with the virus” very wishy-washy, an approach which is soooooo Micheal Martin.
Ah, the old "I want mandatory quarantine for everyone else, so that I can travel for IRA funerals"The Shinners,
Yep, I think it's fair to say that we are all in favour of Zero Covid just like we are all in favour of nice weather and world peace but it's not an achievable aim and attempting it would cause more harm than good while still failing.Have to laugh at people comparing us to New Zealand and how we can close our borders for over a year just as easily....When New Zealand is as open a economy as us and is part of the largest single market in the world, when they share a land border with another nation that is so politically and socially vulnerable , when they have the same amount of foreign workers, same amount of multinationals, same of amount of trade, same amount of connectivity and proximity to other countries, then we can compare the two Countries.
It had a plan in place, acted early; there were only 2 deaths in China when it put that plan into action, and it had the infrastructure there from previous major outbreaks.Vietnam has adopted Zero Covid. It has a population of almost 100 million people.
Total Covid death is 35. Daily cases yesterday was 34.
It has land borders with Cambodia, China, Laos and Myanmar. And some of those borders are very lengthy.
I'm not vehemently opposed to it. I just agree with the Government and State agencies when thy say that it won't work.I don’t understand why the anti-Zero-Covid brigade are so vehemently opposed to it. It’s like the Covid-deniers and anti-Vaxxers.
So we've had a TB vaccine since 1937 but we still get cases.@Purple stats on TB and Pox are make ZC even more appealing.
No, it was a no-brainer of a decision but they've generally done a good job, especially considering how generally inept our health service is.Zero COVID was never an option for us with a boarder on the island with the UK and some of the dail advocates were just doing the usual and saying it for the sake of opposing. I wouldn't go as far to say it was a genius decision by Leo and Micheál's though and I am not anti government by any means.
yes I agreeNo, it was a no-brainer of a decision but they've generally done a good job, especially considering how generally inept our health service is.
I was talking to a close friend who lives in Melbourne and I know him 30 plus years and never heard him so down. He said people are so angry with the strategy and many are now asking why it was pursued. Remember even Australian citizens cant go home, and of course the Katie Hopkins incident hasn't calmed the mood.Yet more bad news from Australia in what officials are calling a national emergency. I hope the exponents of Zero Covid in the Dail and in the media will now admit they were utterly and completely wrong and thank this and the previous Government for ignoring them and getting it right in their approach to how they handled the virus. Well done Leo and Micheál and Simon and all those who set the stage at the start of this crisis.
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