(30-08-2023, 07:24 PM)Wainuiguy Wrote:That was an early projection that I hadn't bothered revisiting. It appears the lives saved in NZ over the course of the pandemic was nearer a quarter of that number, still to a large part thanks to the effectiveness of the lock-down, social distancing, masking and vaccinations measures implemented by the government which were widely panned by the opposition parties on (now discounted) economic grounds.(30-08-2023, 04:15 PM)harm_less Wrote: Worth remembering that we have been dealing with a pandemic for much of those 6 years which has cost a shit-tonne of money and placed enormous demands on our health sector together with many other social services. We can just be grateful that we weren't under a National government during that time because for one thing there would now be around 50,000 less Kiwis if we had been.
That death count is total conjecture and you know it.
From this: https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/fellows-...-covid-19/
"In New Zealand, at least 2,300 FEWER people have died than expected ÔÇ£under normal circumstancesÔÇØ over the course of the pandemic! .....
......That is in addition to 10,000+ deaths averted because we went hard, and few cases of ÔÇ£long COVIDÔÇØ, in which people suffer long term ill-health."