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Until they open their borders.
by irq11 6y ago
Until they open their borders.
- gridspy 6y agoThe New Zealand borders are open and accepting citizen and essential arrivals into quarantine with a long waiting list.
- icelancer 6y ago>> The New Zealand borders are open and accepting citizen and essential arrivals into quarantine with a long waiting list. This effectively reads "closed."
- gridspy 6y agoStrong borders are the price you have to pay for very little restriction inside them when most of the world is busy infecting its populace. But yes, tourism or business trips are now infeasible. Fortunately it turns out that they were never essential.
- irq11 6y ago> Fortunately, it turns out that they were never essential. HN user doesn’t see the need for something, therefore it must not be essential.
- mkl 6y agoThe NZ border is unlikely to be open to non-citizens this year. We'll wait until we've vaccinated ~everyone, and since we have no community transmission, we're sitting back in the queue a bit.
- irq11 6y agoThat’s great for tiny New Zealand, but the suggestion was that this path will lead to eradication. It will not.