The Covid19 Lockdown is working in New Zealand.
During the covid19 lockdown, New Zealand Prime minister delivered the message "stay home, save lives. I strongly believe that the covid19 lockdown is a good idea. It helps to stop transmission through the community. Compared to other countries New Zealand has an incredibly low death toll. The lockdown has also made lots of time for interaction with family. Whilst the lockdown was a new thing for the world, it is reassuring that we are now out of it and able to socialize with the world.
To date New Zealand has a total of 1,100 cases of covid19. According to director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield those numbers are only going to drop over time. Every day an average of 1-2 people get infected with the coronavirus. That is an astounding drop compared to our daily record high of 89 on both the 02 and the 05 of april.
My second point is that there is a lot of time that people can spend with their families. Everyone with people in their lives knows how crucial it is to have a close relationship with them. This lockdown is the perfect opportunity for families to hang out amongst each other. With board games and a wild imagination, it would be like taking a trip back to the "good old days".
The third and final point that I would like to bring up is that compared to the number of cases in other countries with similar amounts of people, we are doing alright. Take Ireland for instance, a country with 4,937,786 they have a whopping total of 24,200 cases and 1,500 deaths whereas we a county of 4,822,233 only have 1,100 cases and 21 deaths. This is all because of a massage delivered New Zealand prime minister, "go hard and go early".
In conclusion I am sure that you can agree that the lockdown was a good idea and that with many key members of parliament none of this would have been quite as successful as it was. Now that we are officially out of lockdown it will still take a while for businesses and the economy to get back up on its feat.
