Editors note: Due to technical issues yesterday that prevented our articles from being viewed by most of our audience I have made the decision to republish them today.
Google has used their vast amounts of data from users to show how dramatically the economy has been affected by the nationwide shutdown. It is sobering reading.
These Community Mobility Reports aim to provide insights into what has changed in response to policies aimed at combating COVID-19. The reports chart movement trends over time by geography, across different categories of places such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential.
The Government’s “go hard and early” plan has succeeded in only doing one thing: tanking the economy. Their porous border strategy also let in thousands of sick people, and as a result of their refusing to quarantine at the border the virus is now right around the country. We know this because in a bid to calm the horses Dr Ashley Bloomfield has merrily told us all that 53% of cases are travel related. So, letting people in then trusting them to self isolate has done precisely nothing to prevent the spread of the virus.
This information shows how dramatically we’ve had our lives curtailed, and it now appears it was for nothing.
There will be a reckoning once data like this seeps out from behind the Government spin.