CV and mad panic behaviour

[Thryleon]

I tend to blame ScoMo more than Andrews, he pushed for a reopening due to the economic effects and Andrews was forced to comply after being the Jacinda Ardern of Australia and enforcing the tightest lockdown of all states.
Speaking of Ardern she nailed it with stage 4 from late March and NZ have had 17 days with no cases, its the only proven way with no vaccine and both Victoria and NSW need to adopt same for a couple of months at least.
We cant be opening, locking down, opening, locking down and repeating the cycle, we need to go hard now and the economy is going to have to get worse and yes we will pay for it later but thats the scenario IMO.

I dont think erecting a bubble is practical either though.

Think of it this way.  NZ are now back at the start again.  The second they open up internationally, they will go through it all over again.

We dont have the virus under control, but we might be limiting its ability to impact, and resuming our ability to get back to normal through the exposure.  Our hospitals are still not under significant pressure, and we are all healthy enough.

Perhaps the yo yo lock downs is the best way forward.

You cannot lock it out forever but we wont find out until a little way down the track.

(on a side note, no vaccine will be adequately produced and trialled for years).