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melissa | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 I really would love to write a book about it. We're NZ citizens and couldn't get home for such a long time! We were kinda grateful in a lot of ways. It forced us to really challenge everything and get very uncomfortable. 

We were actually stuck in Vietnam, but found out we were pregnant and since we prefer home birth we had to find a country that was open and didn't have too many rules to travel to. We spent three months in Turkey, a month in Greece and then moved over to Spain. 🤩

It was a bit of a wild adventure 💯🙌
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rodbishop | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Wild. I'm glad it worked out. I also couldn't get back to NZ and I'm only three hours away in Sydney! Lottery to get admission in to NZ. Special permission required to leave AU. Mandatory quarantine on arrival with a toddler while working remotely. Impossible.
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melissa | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yeah that whole thing was nuts right?! When we got to Europe no one could understand why we couldn't go home to have the baby 😂 most people thought our country was a bit crazy since everywhere else at least took in their citizens 😅
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BaleNorge | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 NZ was commended for acting like a safest country. !!! But other side people were losing.
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melissa | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 NZ and Aussie were a joke. The absolute bs fed to our citizens and residents was complete garbage. People were genuinely conned into believing if they didn't comply with rules they would never travel again and so many people believed the lies 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

I find it interesting that barely anyone we meet knows that Vietnam mostly escaped the whole thing until 2021.

Of a population size of 99 million people, there were something like approximately 2030ish cases from the start until May 2021, only 36 people died (old and already unwell people - not one young healthy person)... That stayed well out of international news and it annoyed the heck out of me every time I heard how 'well' NZ was doing. 

1. Probably one of the most remote countries in the world, bloody hard to get to.
2. Tiny population. Numbers of course were going to be low by comparison and no one was going to bother to do maths to calculate a per capita scenario.

It still annoys me - clearly 😂