Could the answer be in our average level of health being comparatively better than most Western (and other) countries? Case in point; obesity, food quality, air quality, population density, geographic isolation (limiting infection levels), active lifestyle.
The most at risk sectors of NZ's population are those that are already health compromised otherwise we seem to be in good shape regarding our resistance to infection or our ability to weather the storm in the case we are exposed to infection levels beyond our natural resistance to fend off the pathogen's effects.
This article presents the scenario of a modern society's compromised inherent health being the real problem we face and as a result pharmaceutical interventions become a necessary input, in the same way that modern farming practices are highly reliant on chemical inputs in order to address the industrialisation of their management methods. In both cases the real solution lies in correcting the ways we manage ourselves, whether in terms of soil/gut health, food inputs, toxin exposure, chemical/pharmaceutical inputs, and overall psychological wellbeing.
Our government, like many internationally, are being slated over their socially restrictive responses regarding COVID but in a world that is badly out of balance are they just taking the most straightforward and expedient approach in an attempt to 'normalise' national health rather than making real advances in bringing us back to a realistically healthy normal?
The most at risk sectors of NZ's population are those that are already health compromised otherwise we seem to be in good shape regarding our resistance to infection or our ability to weather the storm in the case we are exposed to infection levels beyond our natural resistance to fend off the pathogen's effects.
This article presents the scenario of a modern society's compromised inherent health being the real problem we face and as a result pharmaceutical interventions become a necessary input, in the same way that modern farming practices are highly reliant on chemical inputs in order to address the industrialisation of their management methods. In both cases the real solution lies in correcting the ways we manage ourselves, whether in terms of soil/gut health, food inputs, toxin exposure, chemical/pharmaceutical inputs, and overall psychological wellbeing.
Our government, like many internationally, are being slated over their socially restrictive responses regarding COVID but in a world that is badly out of balance are they just taking the most straightforward and expedient approach in an attempt to 'normalise' national health rather than making real advances in bringing us back to a realistically healthy normal?