Iceberg

Is he though?

You think anyone below 90 iq (average) would just run out and eat dog poop?

LumberJack

"Part of the nation's success laid in the fact that its Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern instituted a strict, country-wide lockdown for six weeks in March before the country had even recorded any COVID-19 deaths.

During the six-week lockdown, the country's top officials quickly closed its borders to any non-citizens and required any New Zealander returning from foreign travel to self-quarantine. Officials also created an extensive system of regular testing and contact tracing for its citizens to help contain the virus after the lockdown ended.

Polls showed that roughly 80 percent of the nation's citizens backed the lockdown, despite some political critics stating that the measures had worsened people's mental health and delivered a blow to the nation's tourist-reliant economy"

DeltaboundRedux

Sidenote:

IQ is an interesting and extremely useful predictor [GASP] of many things. But it's difficult for a person with a significantly higher IQ to grasp just how much different the world is to someone in the <90 set.

Best book that illustrates this was called "McNamara's Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War". LBJ/McNamara needed meat for the Vietnam grinder and waived IQ minimums in spite of the Army's protests. The results (and the high casualty rates) were predictable.

It's a good case study of a litany of things we do on a daily basis that a huge subset of the general population either can't do, can't understand, or do poorly.

Unsurprisingly, low IQ people are much easier to fool. They might not eat dog waste (which, I might add, Phins never wrote), but they'll take as reasonable instructions all kinds of thing your average commercial pilot* would question.



*(Commercial pilots average around 120 IQ, which seems a bit high to me based on narrow personal experience and having had exposure to some truly bright people outside the field. Military pilots probably a bit higher, but I doubt by much. )

LumberJack

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rickair7777

Easy enough to do if you're an island nation with at least 1,000 miles of ocean in every direction. And your nearest neighbor is another island nation doing the same thing.

Ludicrously impossible for the rest of the world.

LumberJack

Any country can do it with enough participation. If Canada, the U.S. and Mexico worked together, it would be possible here.

Nvrgofullretard

I guess this is a good response if you have nothing intelligent to say. You would be a great debater in the elementary debate school. If you have an issue, maybe try a rebuttal. Otherwise you’re just using words words words

Mesabah

Epithelial cell damage from Covid. This is preventable if treated early enough in the disease. However, If you get Covid, you will likely be denied medical care until you are in very serious condition, and it is too late.

rickair7777

Mexico? GMAB, there's an wide-open land conduit from all of south/central America into the US via Mexico. No way that could ever be locked down.

Like I said, you need 1,000 miles of open ocean, that's too far for most small private boats.

Hank Kingsley

Karate chop. Check out Vietnam, China, and my favorite beachfront resorts in N. Korea. The best real estate developers are clamoring to build here.