2026-03-24 21:31 UTC
@hembrow@todon.eu Yes, New Zealand did really well: we were lucky because being far away, it took longer for COVID to arrive & being a country of islands, we had a natural barrier. The lockdowns we had were wildly successful & even though we are now much like everyone else, our cumulated deaths per capita will always be lower than almost any other country.
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@hembrow@todon.eu 2026-03-24 22:14
@soonleenz@wandering.shop Meanwhile, we in NL had a ludicrous anti-scientific right wing government which firat said it couldn't spread from China, then seemed surprised that it spread from Italy, which insisted that huge carnival crowds wouldn't be a problem because people met in small groups, which implemented an "intelligent" lockdown which wasn't really a lockdown, refused to take airborne transmission seriously, said that children couldn't spread covid, and spoke far too much about gaining immunity by getting ill. Lots of people died, and no-one seems to care.