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    The new abnormal

    Oct 18, 2020 3 minutes
    BILL RALSTON

    When will we return to some kind of Covid-19-free normality? Can we ever do that or will we face, to use that annoying expression, a “new normal”?

    New Zealand is pursuing a strategy of “elimination” to stop the community spread of the virus and, it appears, we are succeeding to a large extent. The problem with an elimination strategy is that the country absorbs a big and enduring economic shock as a result, we remain in a state of almost complete isolation from the rest of the world and it

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