By Jordan SCHACHTEL
New Zealand, the last of the dedicated "COVID Zero" nations on earth, has completed its transformation into a full-blown tyrannical regime, and shockingly, it has come with the consent of the vast majority of Kiwis.
Once hailed as the media and "public health experts'" favorite COVID-19 managerial "success story," the puff pieces have been increasingly hard to find, as Wellington has spawned a dystopian concoction of insane, despotic government edicts, claimed as an absolutely necessary part of their everlasting fight against a disease with a 99.8% recovery rate.
Just observe what has happened in the Five Eyes partner nation during this week alone:
1) Virtually the entire country is once again under an indefinite lockdown, after a few COVID-19 cases were reported throughout the nation. A single case necessitates a "snap lockdown," in which all rights of millions of citizens are immediately restricted and indefinitely subject to the containment of a seasonal respiratory disease. The current lockdown has been extended over Auckland until at least mid September, with many predicting a much lengthier sentence. According to past precedent, Kiwis will not receive their freedom back until - this is the truly insane part of Zero COVID - there is zero community spread of COVID-19.
And the second another case pops up on the radar, the entire country goes back to square one of the Zero COVID protocol.
Expert says Auckland could face 'three to four weeks' in lockdownAn expert says it will be tight for Auckland to move out of level 4 in a fortnight's time.
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2) A man is being shamed by his countrymen for having the audacity to "escape" from a government-sanctioned COVID internment camp. The camps have been described in a more positive, but false light by the press and government officials as "quarantine hotels," but it is most certainly an internment facility, as leaving is not allowed, and it carries a fine and lengthy prison sentence.
The Hill reported: "The person was charged with failing to comply with New Zealand's coronavirus health order. Under a new law passed last year, he could face a fine or up to six months in jail if convicted."
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3) The country's police and military services are installing security checkpoints throughout New Zealand in an effort to make sure citizens are not traveling during the lockdown. Freely traveling during the lockdown now carries a massive fine and/or prison sentence as punishment.
New Zealanders venture out as COVID-19 curbs eased in most regionsNew Zealanders on Wednesday visited beaches and queued for takeaway food as tough lockdown measures enforced to beat an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus were eased for most of the country.
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Police checkpoints in Auckland as New Zealand records 75 new Covid cases - CityAMResidents of New Zealand's largest city, Auckland, had police checkpoints installed on roads on Wednesday, while tough lockdown measures eased for the rest of the country.
New Zealand is now the only country in the world left that is dedicated to COVID Zero, the pursuit of the total elimination of a virus from their nation, which has been under a government-sanctioned self-siege since the beginning of 2020. All of the other nations that attempted to pursue the pseudoscience behind COVID Zero have failed in catastrophic fashion. New Zealand has transformed from a highly-touted COVID "success story" to a full-fledged house of horrors, and sadly, there is no end in sight to the ongoing madness.