Originally Posted by
tdiddy23
will be interesting to see if NZ regrets their approach once the true infection fatality rates become clear and widely known from serology studies. The more lethal the virus the more their approach makes sense, its easy to get everyone on board when they think they have a 1-3% chance of dying if infected, but 0.3%, may be some dissenters when their dollar drops. Shuttering tourism completely would put them basically in a long term recession on its own no? If there is a delay in the vaccine what is NZ's plan B?
In the medium term there has to be a way for them to safely allow some tourists to return, perhaps an antibody card or something.
It's pretty clear it's not going to be 0.3%. I doubt we will regret it.
Even so, no one knows what long term health consequences are for the 20% that get it and get hit hard.
We might lose tourism but we will gain an open society that can move freely. We don't rely on tourism.