COVID 1984: Let's be like New Zealand

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Re: COVID 1984: Let's be like New Zealand

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Ajax doesn't want to be like New Zealand
New Zealand is set to raise interest rates this week, the first advanced economy in the Asia-Pacific to begin normalizing policy, as a powerful recovery unhindered by delta outbreaks shows signs of overheating.
Wouldn't that be a nice problem to have?
New Zealand has managed to successfully eliminate the coronavirus from the community, in large part by acting early to close its border to most foreigners and requiring citizens returning home to undergo quarantine.
New Zealand’s tough border policy has also shut out migrant workers, creating labor shortages, and as a result the economy is running hot as demand surges.
Hold the phone: New Zealand has shut out migrant workers and Ajax doesn't want to be like New Zealand?
Economists tip New Zealand’s jobless rate could drop toward 3.5% next year
(presently 4% vs. US 5.4)
The RBNZ’s inflation and maximum sustainable employment targets have been met and look to stay met for the foreseeable future,” Bank of New Zealand Head of Research Stephen Toplis said
We can't take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don't have maybe what they're supposed to have. They get rid of some of the people who have been there for 25 years and they work great and then you throw them out and they're replaced by criminals.
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Re: COVID 1984: Let's be like New Zealand

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Who was ypur source on that Gad? It's hard to believe the mainstream media would admit that enforcing the border would raise wages at home.
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Re: COVID 1984: Let's be like New Zealand

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ajax18 wrote:
Tue Aug 17, 2021 11:43 pm
Who was ypur source on that Gad? It's hard to believe the mainstream media would admit that enforcing the border would raise wages at home.
Click the link on line 1.
We can't take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don't have maybe what they're supposed to have. They get rid of some of the people who have been there for 25 years and they work great and then you throw them out and they're replaced by criminals.
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Re: COVID 1984: Let's be like New Zealand

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Morley wrote:
Tue Aug 17, 2021 5:23 pm


If I remember correctly, New Zealand's population is about 5 million. Even glancing at your math, I can tell it's wrong.
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If that is so, let's look at a comparison.

My state population: 5.75 million
Covid deaths: 7,054

NZ Covid deaths: 26
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Re: COVID 1984: Let's be like New Zealand

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Jersey Girl wrote:
Tue Aug 17, 2021 11:59 pm
Morley wrote:
Tue Aug 17, 2021 5:23 pm


If I remember correctly, New Zealand's population is about 5 million. Even glancing at your math, I can tell it's wrong.
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If that is so, let's look at a comparison.

My state population: 5.75 million
Covid deaths: 7,054

NZ Covid deaths: 26
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Re: COVID 1984: Let's be like New Zealand

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Between New Zealand and the US, one of them has an out-of-control pandemic. Emergency field hospitals are not a positive thing (except possibly in Mississippi where patients can enjoy a mint julep rather than a Yankee vaccine).
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