New Zealand is beating the Delta variant outbreak of August 2021

Bruce Hudson
3 min readAug 29, 2021

The zero community spread philosophy is still a valid option.

Since the current outbreak of the Delta variant, internationally, there has been a fairly negative view of NZ chasing zero community spread.

Thankfully, the overwhelming majority of people in NZ support lockdowns, or measures that achieve zero community spread.

For us in NZ, we pursue zero community spread because it is a legitimate choice, and the alternatives include widespread illness and death…

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Bruce Hudson

Navigates new worlds where substance should always beat effervescence, but doesn’t. I undermine misinformation whenever practical. @BHudsonWrites enzman.com