Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "New Australia-New Zealand travel bubble reunites many families - BBC News" video.

  1. New Zealand has for a short while, Australia as far as I know not a problem. Have to remember in both countries and others in Western Pacific WHO region it's 14 days mandatory enforced hotel quarantine. All our border workers and hotel quarantine workers would have had vaccine by now I expect so the risk is now lower than a few months ago. Entry is only for permanent resident and citizens for the moment in almost all cases.
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  2. Kopkun Krap
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  3. What's that supposed to mean?
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  4. Time to revise your numbers 0.284% of New Jersey USA population already dead from covid 19 and they are still dying and this is with significant vaccine rollout at this point in time. A couple of European countries also hit 0.27% dead of total population.
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  5.  @stoufer2000  You have to look at issues one by one and consider a country's failings to consider what might be a problem. Australia has the largest foreign born population in the world along with Switzerland apparently and we have a controlled border. New Zealand and Canada not so different. So I am just pointing out one issue that is problematic in the US and UK, this issue means the UK and US will have problems in this area which creates groups who blame the "foreigners" despite the fact both those countries have less foreign immigrants but far more illegal immigrants. Depending what you mean by right wing , if you are talking about anti foreigner and or immigrant sentiment well we are at fairly low risk of that developing in any meaningful way because rule of law exists, that is a controlled border. On trade issues which apparently far left and far right take the same view, that is protectionism, Australia and New Zealand don't have this problem, if you look at the economic freedom index you will see positions 1,2,3 are basically an informal group of free trade promoters Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, we are all trade surplus countries. For any extreme positions to take hold first a problem has to be identified, you can't create extremism from an overall happy population where things are good. So at the moment no risk, this doesn't however mean in the future if things go into decline or for example we abandon a controlled border policy it can't happen, just pointing out we are in a good position now as is New Zealand.
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