Yes... when you address COVID correctly like New Zealand then your economy can remain open and you avoid all of this misery related to the wide-spread prevalence of the disease.
When you a sparsely populated island all you have to do is lockdown your population in the most brutal way, close your borders, restrict your citizens' freedoms...
confirm your status as a bootlicking Chinese cesspool of authoritarianism,
watch your economy fall by a record 12% in Q2...
make public debt explode...
design shitty COVID apps,
fail on your border control (closed until 2023, probably),
mandatory $3500 2 week quarantines for failed PCR tests on a virus with a 99+% survivability rate, much higher for people under 65 with no Comorbs.......
and your economy will grow at...wait for it...NEGATIVE 2.2% (September-September)...
BRA FUCKING VO...
The Kiwis are the model...LOOOOOOL..
We could all learn from Fiji and New Caledonia, too...