Our family in [fairly rural] NZ had a near undisturbed life through COVID, other than a lack of foreign visitors. We were jealous.
And NZ’s death rate was about 6 times lower than the UK’s.
Do you know why your friends think it was handled so badly? Lots of variables, obviously, but statistically it looks like it was amongst the most successful developed countries in the world at limiting deaths.
Our family in [fairly rural] NZ had a near undisturbed life through COVID, other than a lack of foreign visitors. We were jealous.
And NZ’s death rate was about 6 times lower than the UK’s.
Do you know why your friends think it was handled so badly? Lots of variables, obviously, but statistically it looks like it was amongst the most successful developed countries in the world at limiting deaths.