Careful careful careful
The New Zealand Herald reports:
The US Government has warned its citizens to be very cautious about travelling to New Zealand because of our “23 active cases” of Covid-19.
Um. Yes. Be VERY VERY CAREFUL about leaving a country where there have been 4,858,596 cases so far, with 56,105 new cases today, and traveling to one where there are…23. WATCH OUT. MIND HOW YOU GO.MAYBE INJECT SOME BLEACH.
Worth pointing out that every single one of the current active cases, and indeed all diagnosed cases for I think 90+ days now, have been returning travellers in managed isolation (essentially quarantine). No community transmission. But yeah, be very afraid.
For any administration other than this one I would have seen the advice as showing consideration towards New Zealand, a sort of look how well they’re containing the virus; don’t screw things up with your stupidity kind of message.
But this isn’t any other administration, it’s Trump’s the only way we can look good is by pretending everybody else is worse administration.
Well you do have to be careful because you’ll be clapped into quarantine for a fortnight, at the cost of a couple of thousand NZ dollars, and for which there is a quota as there are only so many quarantine hotels.