Tue Aug 17, 2021 – 7:31 pm EDT
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(LifeSiteNews) — New Zealand’s Prime Minister imposed a strict national lockdown on the isolated nation of 5 million people after a single case of COVID surfaced in Auckland.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s lockdown measure — ordering stores and businesses closed and telling people to stay in their homes — is seen by observers as “dystopian” and “a zero Covid fantasy” that is “a never-ending nightmare.”
“Do not congregate. Don’t talk to your neighbors. Please keep to your bubbles,” warned Ardern in a televised address. “It comes down again to those very simple principles.”
“We know from overseas cases of the Delta variant that it can be spread by people simply walking past one another,” she continued. “So keep those movements outside to a bare minimum, wear a mask, and make sure you keep up that physical distancing.”
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The New Zealand government’s heavy-handed response to the solitary COVID-19 case has been seen as wildly disproportionate to the threat it represents by some global commentators.
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