New Zealand Deals Successfully with COVID-19 — Here’s How They Did It

Sure, New Zealand did very well in combating the coronavirus, while the United States, with 4.2% of the world’s population, has 28.5% of the fatalities.  Putting this into focus, however, the Kiwis have three huge advantages.

1) Their prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has an honest concern for the well-being of her nation’s people, and does not make decisions based on protecting her own image and her prospects for re-election.  Instead of delays out of fear of looking bad, shifting the blame to half a dozen others, and lying about the numbers, she jumped right on the problem while there was still time to prevent the disease from spreading like wildfire.

2) New Zealanders are generally intelligent, well-educated, sane, and compassionate. In time of crisis and need, they come together like adults and cooperate with one another and civil authority, rather than whine like a nation full of spoiled brats, breaking the law, recklessly endangering others, some brandishing symbols of hate, not to mention semi-automatic rifles.

3) New Zealand doesn’t have an entire, gutless political party devoted to supporting a sociopath, refusing to act against him regardless of the ever-mounting danger he represents to the nation’s people.

The tools required to win this battle are not mysterious, and they’re not rocket science.  This is simply what happens when leaders lead and followers follow.