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To further echo BC's point, New Zealand has also crushed the curve (almost no new domestic cases in the past week), and their PM, Jacinda Ardern, is pretty far left, and is now negotiating with Australia to create a joint Antipodean bubble that would permit relatively open travel and commerce between the two countries. Shows that if you follow the science and stay focused on policy rather than politics, the virus can be beaten, regardless of the politics of the party in charge.

[2006alum]

To further echo BC's point, New Zealand has also crushed the curve (almost no new domestic cases in the past week), and their PM, Jacinda Ardern, is pretty far left, and is now negotiating with Australia to create a joint Antipodean bubble that would permit relatively open travel and commerce between the two countries. Shows that if you follow the science and stay focused on policy rather than politics, the virus can be beaten, regardless of the politics of the party in charge.