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Spin Zone / Re: Covidiocy Continued
« on: January 25, 2021, 03:09:57 PM »Asymptomatic transmission is very rare. Otherwise how did New Zealand eliminate covid? They aggressively isolated anyone with symptoms and it vanished from the island. They’ve done that more than once after new cases are brought over. If asymtomatic transmission was really an issue they wouldn’t have been able to do that. The news totally squashes this fact.
From what I've read, they aggressively isolated pretty much everyone, not just anyone with symptoms. They instituted an aggressive lockdown of the entire country until cases had dropped to undetectable levels. They also mandated isolation for anyone entering the country, though I think that was eventually relaxed somewhat for people coming from countries that had successfully eliminated the virus.
I'm not sure what measures they have in place currently; all of my sources were written last (northern hemisphere) summer.