Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ 23 Jan 2022 21:00)
In other words you can't accept you were wrong. As usual. I wasn't making any comparison. NZ made a clear goal, accomplished it, and that's that. Other people are angry they value life more, and so they say they did worse.
I'm not saying they did worse than us (EU and NA) in the past - I'm saying that it's completely unnecessary to continue their previous approach now that the conditions have fundamentally changed.
Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ 23 Jan 2022 20:54)
Arden made it clear from the start that her goal was that nobody dies from Covid. It is very clear, both in her statements and policy, that her goal is to reduce Covid deaths as much as possible.
I know a politician being clear, concise, and valuing the human right to life is foreign to people like you, but come on.
Disrupting the lives of an entire nation to prevent every last death from a virus which will inevitably become endemic and which is no longer (sic!) more deadly than other common diseases (for which NZ didn't shut things down in the past) is indeed an extreme position.
If someone suggested that cars should be limited to 20 mph out of town and 10 mph in town to "reduce trafic deaths as much as possible", that would also be a clear and concise position and a bad faith debater could spin it as "valuing human right to life" - it would still obviously be absurd and extreme.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jan 23 2022 02:09pm