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Covid-19 lockdown in pictures: Empty streets across the country as level 4 begins
Empty streets and quiet roads can be seen all across New Zealand on the first day of the level 4 lockdown.
New Zealand.
Nationwide lockdown.
5, repeat, 5 confirmed Covid-19Delta cases.
Jacinda Ardern’s leadership style, focused on empathy, isn’t just resonating with her people; it’s putting the country on track for success against the coronavirus.
God, I love her so much!
The island nation chose strict lockdowns and austerity. What’s next?
While Donald Trump is telling Americans to inject bleach and is encouraging armed gangs of astroturfers to disrupt quarantines, New Zealand has effectively stopped the growth of COVID-19 in the country.
If there is a bright spot in the global response to the pandemic, it is surely New Zealand. While governments worldwide have vacillated on how to respond and ensuing cases of the virus have soared, New Zealand has set an uncompromising, science-driven example.
And the person who is the driving force behind that science-driven example is Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Ardern decisively shut down the country for weeks and followed a classic playbook for fighting communicable disease. Her policy of putting medical science ahead of politics has unsurprisingly resulted in an extremely low per capita fatality rate.
Being a competent leader, even if that means occasionally making unpopular decisions, is good politics.
A leaked poll shows National has dropped below 30 per cent, and Labour at 55 per cent
The prime minister’s Labour Party has soared in the polls while the main opposition National Party has drooped.
A poll taken when the country was still in a Level 4 lockdown (the strictest level) showed Labour at 55%, National at 29%, New Zealand First at 6%, the Greens at 5%, and ACT at 3%.
On a personal level, Jacinda Ardern‘s approval rating is 65% while the approval for National Party leader Simon Bridges is at 7%.
Things are not perfect in NZ. There are some people abusing social distancing guidelines as well as some soreheads who would like to ignore the health crisis and prematurely return to the pre-pandemic way of doing things. But they’re not running around with assault rifles or exchanging bleach recipes.
But 78% of New Zealanders do feel that the country is headed in the right direction. And that is likely a more enduring figure than stats for politics.
NZ is 4.5 months ahead of the September 19th election. If Jacinda Ardern is returned to power it will serve as an indication that good government is also good politics. In the US I hope the GOP will soon learn the lesson that bad government is bad politics.
And because strong measures were taken from the start of the crisis, New Zealand has now begun to carefully reopen its economy.
New Zealand starts reopening for business with coffee a hot-selling favourite
Level 4 Lockdown, Day 1. The gov promised a strong police and military presence on the streets, stopping people on their strolls for a bit of a chat. A chat about what? I wondered. The weather? The plague? The growing number of teddy bears in windows?! Maybe it was the crazy forming, but I had to find drag the family out on a government-approved stroll around the neighbourhood to find out! Not a single blue uniform or shiny pair of combat boots in sight - I feel so let down. But instead, an unusually high level of people and families on safely-distanced strolls, and everyone eager to smile and nod hello as if we're all just a couple weeks short of painting faces on volleyballs. I guess when you can't see friends, family and coworkers for the short foreseeable future, you form five-second friendships with the people you're passing instead.
Trampers on Stewart Island unaware of nationwide lockdown
There are trampers on Stewart Island tracks who are unaware of the nationwide lockdown, the island’s police officer says.
They won't be the only ones.
Covid-19 live: Police arrest five people over lockdown breaches
Two arrested in Northland over disorder at a supermarket after refusing to wear masks, while three people in Christchurch were arrested for
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