Transmissible as it is and it throws curveballs and that this was the best way to try and help new zealand control the spread of omicron. remember, they are in a much better position than they were after the delta variant outbreak that happened a few months ago, there are now more than 90% double vaccinations across the nation in new zealand and the community cases are trending down, they are dropping and have recorded about 28 today and of course these feel like out of this world numbers but the big test will be what happened here in australia, you know, australia opened its international borders albeit partially here in new south wales, in victoria and the act and they have seen an increase in the number of covid 19 cases and i think this is going to be the big test for new zealand. how is it going to handle reopening borders, how it is going to respond to the spread of covid 19 and, right now, they are trying to buy time to