McClaws — an advocate of masks and fast, hard lockdowns — believes a suppression strategy is naïve.
"The only reason [the New Zealand outbreak] would give ammunition to those wanting suppression not elimination is that they fail to understand what elimination means," McLaws says. "If the term was 'near elimination' or 'no community spread' then perhaps we could leave politics out of this and accept that [elimination] is a more effective way of getting back to normal life.
Plank agrees: "If [cases per day] get too large, it gets harder and harder for the contact tracers to keep up and, as has happened in Melbourne, a [stage 4] lockdown is the only option."
I was a staunch supporter of the ABC but in the past few months they have become gutter trash just like the MSM. Is this a deliberate tactic to get ABC supporters off side so that when they privatise the ABC no one will give a shit.
So who are you blaming so you can be part of the problem
ABC’s brief to trash anybody who makes this government look bad has been extended.
What a shit house headline
Yay! She's so pretty and courageous and strong! Yay! Wait, what? Oh well, she can still look sad and innocent, still works for the Jacinda lap-dogs' narrative 🤷♂️ . Whatever.
NZ have gone HARD at this outbreak. I hope they get control of it soon. jacindaardern is a top leader who is prepared to do the hard things.
I think it was always expected that there would be a relapse of some kind. COVID is a slippery beast after all
Are you ''My ABC'' - Not with these Murdoch tinged headlines. Who says Ms Ardern is a ''poster child'' ? She a grown adult doing a grown up job, and covid is virus that rears it ugly head anywhere, anytime. You should retract this shite immediately. ThisIsNotJournalism
Hence the long face...
Is it pure coincidence that it’s so close to the election?
Seriously, I knew Australia had problem with casualisation of its workforce and sub-sub-contracting but didn't realise news team has been subcontracted to newscorpaus ! unionsaustralia , you may want to look into this?
Jealousy is a curse
This is the type of scipting I would expect from The Telegrah. The ABC editors are going downhill fast. I woun't bothe reading it.
she's done a wonderful job, wish she was our Prime minister, that's what this place needs not some one who's being told what to do by the clam, look at the state of the country, almost at a stand still only got Tories and Brexit to blame. jealousy gets them no where.
Poster child?
And still a level head dealing with the resurgence that is always likely.
So NZ acts decisively and gets excellent outcomes. Then the virus does as viruses do and people get infected again. NZ acts decisively and fast and this is politicised in the ABC as a 'Ha Ha' gotcha moment.. this is the low to which the ABC has fallen.
Really?
And abc you can jam your iview...we wont be part of your corrupt unAustralian behaviour...you have turned our abc into a shitheap!!!!
Please put someone new on your news captions. ‘Poster child’ 🤬🤬 was the Editor asleep? This is a patronising nonsense title. There have been lots of these type of captions and they are not worthy of the journalism or the national broadcaster.
What a trash take 🗑
Versus US? Brazil? India?
So much fun reading the outrage. How dare you criticise our hero😁
Enough of the '2.0' already!
Crappy headline but it does show you no matter how well you respond, whether it’s elimination or curve flattening you’re after, COVID is extremely transmissible so there had better be a good plan B in place.
notmyABC Pathetic. Shameful. Calculated attacks on anything progressive. You guys are part of the LNPCrimeFamily Fuck you all at the ABC. You are the enemy of democracy.
People who thought NZ had succeeded in eliminating the virus were morons. People who think the sky is falling now that some infections have been detected are also morons. Don't be a Moron !!
The abc is nothing more that a Murdoch bootlicker.
At least she will take responsibility unlike some people
She’s done well while other leaders have fumbled around all over the place. Tough job in unprecedented times. Also, this virus is an unknown - full lockdown may not eradicate it, but helps control outbreaks. Go Jacinda. Go the Kiwis!
Unbelievably rubbish on a top PM. 100 days virus free.
Absolute, news Corp arse licking from ABC... Covid is not going anywhere in a hurry... NZ has done wonderfully - partially due to great leadership & partly due to its geographic isolation... Australia had its chance - shit federal leadership, open borders to US...etc
Seriously? Stop this bullshit. notourabc
trash, not clicking
Ardern did the right thing with the evidence at the time, did it quick and didn't piss fart around with arbitrary rules like we did here 'well you can still get a haircut and loiter in Bunnings.' It may be that it's impossible to eliminate, but still did better than 'let it rip'
She's still better than SQott
The fact they went straight back into lockdown is why they are poster child. What a rubbish headline
Once again a disgraceful headline. It's so bad I refuse to click the story, which quite possibly is fine. Do better. 😡
Hey ABC, it’s like you’re rejoicing or relishing this. How sad. And we the public should protect your interests from privatization? You make the case for us to care harder and harder by the day.
It’s been sad watching the devolution of the ABC.
F u c’s
What sort of a fucking Headline is that? Oh, it's from RWNJABC!!
Butchers and Greengrocers aren't allowed to operate as due to alert level 3 but Supermarkets are allowed to remain open. Obviously lessons haven't been learned by this government.
Inevitable. We are all screwed.
2 thirds of the border control staff haven't been tested. But as of yesterday they will be now. Prior to that, they could refuse to be tested as to the Bill of Rights.
ThisIsNotJournalism
Is this tweet from the same individual who posts direct links to paywalled 'articles' in the australian, on a weekly basis, under the cover of InsidersABC . 'poster child'? Woeful abc.
Th a Godless will fall.
When the NZ airports open the shitstorm begins. NZ has zero natural herd immunity.
This is worthy of any of the Murdoch papers.
Leave her alone.
This is an opinion piece not a news article.
christo10695010 Some of the comments I have read about the NZ 2nd outbreak say much about the contributors. Sadly not enough space to describe them.
Manageable numbers. Sensible health systems. Ideology only works in homogeneous controlled circumstances. Sensible and healthy living, not an unachievable eradication strategy. Quarantine is sensible management. We need to plan for the future. A vaccine will integrate into this.
ABC - from poster child for LWNJs to fascism in one article. Or so the LWNJs would have you believe.
ABC going the full Murdoch headline...NZ may now be isolating a new way the Viris travels, we are still arguing in Bunnings over masks.
🤔 weird take.....
Did you enjoy the bad news this week or what? Please ABC, one News Corpse is enough.
Oh FFS NZ is still doing pretty well. Dumb journalism
This tweet is clickbait, but read the article.
And Australia has a Nonna killing Prime Minister: ScomoTheNonnaKiller There can’t be too many New Zealanders saying they wish they had a Nonna killing PM. whatthebloodyhellhappened ScomoLiedAndNonnasDied
Who writes these headlines utter crap
Meanwhile, we're having dozens of deaths a week and our aged care sector is fucked. New Zealand had a slip, but it's not very bad. Yet.
They’re very fast moving and intelligently responding
If NZ couldn't maintain elimination then to think any other country such as Australia could is delusional. Open up society and get on with life. Take action to not overwhelm hospitals and that's it. Attempts to eliminate just push infections into the future they still happen.
Cue leftist outrage. Our ABC should NEVER be critical of socialist heroes
Absolute Trash headline !! Prefer her leadership any day before Scomo !
The Australian newspaper yesterday sunk to a new low. Why does the ABC need to fill their vacated position? Stop insulting your readers & viewers with the sliding decline in the journalistic standards being presented as headlines. Please attain the once gold standard expected.
Prefer their 'very bad week' than ours, they seem to work as a united country and realise it's a virus not a political football.
No good, very bad..... do you have a 5yr old writing these headlines?
Should we discuss Morrison & AgedCare or Dutton RubyPrincess ABF...? SHAME ON YOU ABC - cheap, shoddy work! ThisIsNotJournalism auspol
Only 'no good' if the strategy doesn't work.
has the abc been taken over by murdoch?
Not sure about this headline . She’s done a way better job than ScoMo.
Will apologise for this right wing propaganda when NZ comes back out in a few weeks and Jacinda proves her great leadership again.
The ABC has now become vile also
From reliable news source to crappy click-bait. ABCs decline and the manufacturing of the publics consent to privatise it.
Rather have Jacinda Narden than Morrison any day
The ABC has gone full Murdoch. This is right wing propaganda, not news. ThisIsNotJournalism BoycottMurdoch auspol
Why are you acting all murdoch like with stupid click bait headlines.
Referring to a 40 year old woman, world leader and mother as a poster child... Are you farming your social media out to 3rd party hacks like SBS?
Wow that’s a shitty headline.
Give it a rest. 22 Covid deaths.
This is not very good news. Do better.
Tabloid reporting at its best, and why we no longer watch ABC for our news. How the mighty have fallen!
I’d rather have her or Dan Andrews in charge than Mr Teflon.
And they’re still doing better than we are
Each time it bubbles up and resurfaces, lock it down until it has truly been eliminated. Hard lockdowns are an inconvenience nobody wants so the idea is to get serious, isolate, mask up and no lies about contacts. If you don't want risque movements traced then don't go there.
Why ABC Editor do you get sucked into the News Corp tactic of personifying every outcome to an individual? It entrenches division & tribalism. Covid is a health crisis. Be better than this. auspol COVID19nz covid19aus
Oh at least they had 100 Covid free days. We've had none free days and still suffering for it. So fuck off anyone who says Adern is losing.
Do better ABC very disappointed
🐂💩
Everyone at since ScottyFromMarketing and ItaButtrose took over:
Poster child Explain please, totally stupid comment ,to who ?the media Not a FAN
What utter bullshit! Stop taking the neoconservative line! It took just 6 hours to make a decision to save thousands of people being infected .. that is positive.
So really there is not point to anything, 100 days without community transmission and then boom. I’m feeling really deflated by this.
Here's an idea - write about the federal govt - plenty to find there.
Go early and go hard is the way at the beginning. Otherwise effective tracking and bulk isolation of infected and suspicious covid patients is the only way. Other countries have exercised that many many times and worked.
Disgraceful headline. What has happened to the ABC? The person responsible should crawl back to the gutter they came from. Jacinda is no girl. She is a nations PM, and a more accomplished woman would be difficult to find anywhere and impossible to find in the LNP/IPA.
Disgraceful headline.
Still the poster child for well managed COVID response. No response in perfect, but NZ is as close to perfect as any country has managed.
Amazing leader ❤️
At least NZs leaders can make a clear decision
Awww... the leftie snowflakes fav has come in for some criticism and everyone’s in meltdown mode. Stop it everyone!...stop criticizing Jacinta ... don’t you know the rules?...you’re only allowed to criticize white men.
Oops. That's what happens to those who bag and brag.
Resurgences are an aspect of this pandemic that every nation on the planet either already has or is going to face. Arden is still the “poster child” for responding quickly and effectively. ScottyFromMarketing not so much 😒
Is this really the abc? Fuck me you guys have gone to the gutter
Epidemiologists must just laugh when they read some of the drivel journalists write in relation to how a politician has failed to eradicate a virus with no cure.
REMOVE THIS DISRESPECTFUL HEADLINE
Who writes this rubbish?
I think most people in NZ would rather an early and quick lock down than the flip flopping and procrastination that has occurred in Vic and even NSW, this headline is click bait
Well at least she locked down straight away,instead of what Morrison did waited till after the weekend,look at the results today
A bought press is the only one cheering the un elected .
Just another radical with no experience whatsoever who has destroyed NZ in just a few short years.
You really are doing all you can to give 9 and Murdoch a run for their money in the gutter journo race. Rubbish take on swift, decisive and clearly communicated action.
Jacinta will still be voted back in despite the second lockdown. Unlike her counterpart across the ditch, she acts swiftly and talks to her people like they’re adults, and answers all the questions.
In pursuing the infantile heading’s theme, Ardern is still the poster child in showing how a good leader reacts to an unprecedented presentation of the virus: Quickly and decisively with the country behind her.
What a disgraceful headline Always looking to take down someone doing better than Scomatose abc have become MurdochMinions auspol
'From poster child to Lockdown 2.0' U are meant to report NEWS Not B divisive & controversial in your reporting driving a narrative U think every Australia who reads UR reports &tweets is a dumb Fascist that needs 2 B spoon fed propaganda & TOLD what 2 think STOP THIS GARBAGE
It's just been found in frozen foods in China and NZ was suspecting imported products. If either of those are proven then elimination is going to be more difficult. Containment till a vaccine arrives surely a more realistic approach. Call it attempted elimination if you like.
This is not journalism. It’s utter trash with zero credibility.
she's still doing a great job.
Is Murdoch doing work experience at ABC now?
The commonality between NZ and Vic? Arrogant, hyper partisan left wing political leaders pursuing totally unrealistic, draconian, socially and economically destructive strategies with no clear end game propped up and cheered on by a sycophantic and complicit media. Wake up.
In the end ,biology is magnanimous, it rules over politics and ideology. It moves at its own pace ,and we evolutionarily adapt ,over time ,with the same evolutionary tools ,evolution has given us
Must knock down those tall poppies, this is just pre-election garbage.
All show, no substance.
They will close out the virus again in a couple of weeks.
Its called a failed strategy
Useless socialist PM, just like Andrews, both follow the UN's goal of 'sustainability' and have signed up to the CCP.
Most of my family live in greater Auckland areaThey aren’t complaining Police at Mangawai 1.5 hrs north turning back wealthy Aucklanders going to holiday homes in Northland 🙌 GladysB take note Stay strong Aotearoa 💜4.5% unemployment compared to Australia’s double digits
She is still a poster child. This is serving a lesson to every, single country on immediate action on covid outbreaks.
NZ's no good? Really? That's a pretty terrible headline.
So we have to beat them at Covid? This should transcend trans Tasman rivalry. Jacinda has done a ripper job at containing spread. Once upon a time this headline would have read 'Challenging times ahead for NZ as Auckland sees covid resurgence'
Bad Headline...
And - it was a self-imposed early lockdown ABC - along the lines of the first one which made them a ‘poster child’ (your derogatory term) in the first place.
I expected more from you than this tabloid trash
That Twitter headline is straight out woman’s weekly
From respected national public broadcaster to publisher of inane click bait headlines - ABC 2.0.
It's a pathetic headline.
Lots of click bait headlines from ABC these days - 😕
That’s a cheap headline! Neither Ardern nor Andrews are responsible for the spread of the virus. People, who have NOT done the right things, that are the ones spreading it.
Cursed comment, ABC.
Poor form 👎
What on earth are you talking about? NZers are more cohesive right now, if anything.
Face it, you'd still rather be in New Zealand than just about anywhere else on the planet right now.
Are we celebrating outbreaks now? It's only a cake.
Perhaps Australia's Premiers should take the learning's from this? Hard border closures, eradication strategy clearly hasn't worked. In the absence of a vaccine how can we all live with Covid responsibly? Thx 4 also being my ABC & reporting critically on left wing leaders too.
How dare the abc report objectively!
She has done and continues to do a fantastic job. If New Zealand experiences a massive spike in Covid-19 numbers she will manage it like a pro. I’m pretty sure she won’t go on bloody holiday or to the footy.
True, there were hopes they had eliminated the virus. but hopefully the kiwis are still ok with Jacinda's response, I wish them well. 👍
It's like humans don't have any control over nature.
This is no more than an opinion piece masquerading as reportage. Rubbish.
Is Ita Buttrose murdoch in a wig?
More fake pandemic action. Are you really falling for this stage show? It’s pretty crap. hoax plandemic
They have not been faultless. This re-emergence was predictable and should have been managed better, instead of by complacency
What crap ABC!!! Is this the rubbish you produce now you are being run by the IPA?
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer person , she’ll cry and hug someone and all will be well.
Like I said last week, No new spread was a lie,It has been there the whole time. Lies just Like China and Iran and a host of other countries. This bio attack is just bad!
From the New Zealanders I know she is still the greatest Prime Minister because she acted quickly. This is a very low grade heading and not worthy of the ABC
Unfair headline.
Oh dear. ABC you're breaking my heart with this trash
The wording of this tweet is manipulative and repulsive. Delete it and write one that actually reflects the content of the article. And sack the social media staff that posted it. They are a moronic infant!
Who would have thought would turn into some shabby tabloid type of news service chasing clicks just like newscorp
She’s still done an awesome job. 👍
Pot calling kettle black.
Seriously . First an article with a headline dumping on DanielAndrewsMP and now one dumping on jacindaardern. And you give Our GladysB and Smirko free passes. Dan & Jacinda have been the two best leaders in our region when it comes to COVID-19. They don’t deserve this.
I think we should have a clear metric for what succes in a pandemic looks like. Minimising premature death is a good one ergo they are doing a good job.
She’s amazing. Still a poster girl in her response to this second outbreak.
Is this the Australian or ABC?
From a decent ABC to a shameful one.
ItaButtrose are you proud that the ABCNews is now at the same intellectual level as British tabloids? Who are you going to choose for the first lage 2 girl?
Don’t be silly. It’ll be a short clear out & then things are back running again.
She's been very vigilant and warned there would likely be outbreaks even when it seemed NZ had suppressed the virus
Great, very good headline. 💩
Grow up
Another journalist telling us what a prime minister 'MUST' do.
Really? I'd much prefer to undergo this pandemic under Jacinda Ardern's leadership than Scott Morrison's, Boris Johnson's and Donald Trump's lack of it.
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