Having mentioned yesterday the Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Stringency Index, I was playing around with variants of this chart, tracing the responses of various governments through time.
On this variant I’ve included the Anglo countries and most of the countries of western Europe.
It is only one index, and only as good as the presumptions about what mattered of those who put it together, but it is now quite widely used and cited.
In detail of course it is hard to read, but my main interest was in New Zealand relative to where the generality of other western countries were, and you can read the New Zealand line: throughout the “Level 4 lockdown” the compilers of the index judged our restrictions to be the most stringent of any of the countries, although as at the last updates – and they aren’t updating every country every day – we had…
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