Oh yeah, about New Zealand. New Zealand is not New York City or Los Angeles, or Seattle as far as air traffic is concerned.
You’re correct in that population densities matter as far as mitigation efforts go and tolerance levels before intervention needs to be initiated.
But… so does air traffic through areas. The more traffic, the more likely the spread. Mathematically this plays into the exponential rise in cases too. You want fewer fires to have to stomp out before the exponential curve gets beyond ability to stop the spread or slow it down.
Areas without as much air traffic or population density overall did not have to act as quickly as areas that do. Nor is it some inane testosterone competition between nations on who acted first. Seriously, WTF with the misogynistic sour grapes?
Prime Minister Ardern acted when it was necessary for HER country at their appropriate time. When she acted has to do with the success or failure of New Zealand, not the United States.
Her success did not cause Donald Trump’s failure. His responsibility was to act in regards to the United States, not on New Zealand’s time table for safety. Nothing but US security and preparing for the virus should have been a concern in that regard. He acted poorly, politicizing an emergency situation, and so his actions were ultimately a failure. His choices did not cause her success, it caused his failure.
Apples and Oranges, dude.
If both had acted well, we would be praising the actions of both and there would be nothing wrong with that.
If both had made poor choices, we would be criticizing both and there would be nothing wrong with that either.
Before you get all whiny about how it’s unfair that Trump is being picked on when he didn’t have the time she did, let me remind you that he also had many more resources than she did, the US can produce many of it’s own needs as it’s not an island nation like New Zealand, and the US is not dependent on other nations for vaccine research, development, and manufacture. With better leadership, we would not be sitting on half a million dead before the vaccines are available for everyone, millions infected, tens of thousands with lingering health problems, our economy in tatters, and our people at each other’s throats.
These are the results of poor leadership, nothing more. They were very predictable and wasteful consequences. Pointing fingers and bitter diatribes against more successful leaders (women) won’t change that.
