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chatterbox:

@freitasm are kiwis in NZ covid positive more or less trustworthy than those incoming from overseas with respect to home isolation? And why is there a difference in the options provided to each category?

@jase2985 if positives isolate at home yes without lying etc, there is no increased risk to NZ. That’s obvious.

I’ll pose the same question to you that I did to freitasm regarding covid positives. Why can community positives isolate at home but not incoming?

Especially in NZ where elimination isn’t a sustainable strategy?

The people who need boosting know who they are, they’re the elderly and the vulnerable. They were prioritized last year and stand to gain the most from boosters keeping them out of hospital. Boosting a healthy 30 year old to prevent them from getting a snotty nose is hardly the sound policy borders were based on, so whilst they’re eligible, there’s no reason to keep MIQ to protect healthy double vaxxed against an illness that won’t put them in hospital or won’t keep them there for prolonged periods. With vaccination the balance has shifted in a major way. The unvaccinated, well, they’ve had their opportunities.

So home iso is a perfectly reasonable plan and has been for some time however border policy assessors haven’t had the skill to make these decisions. If the Victorian review was anything to go by, NZ are just as bad if not worse at making these assessments. And I find it absolutely crazy that kiwis are ok with this without weighing up both sides.

Will genuinely be curious when NZ is actually living with the virus who actually believes life is much different to what they experience now?

Good points, BUT, if you extracted 100 incoming in MIQ and 100 randoms, the propensity to be Omicron positive is vastly skewed to MIQ people. Thats now, so why exacerbate the internal NZ issue? If and when its rife here it doesnt matter. But its not rife here, so dont add to it.