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# Elimination Proponent Siouxsie Wiles’ Unpleasant Admission
- URL: https://goodoil.news/elimination-proponent-siouxsie-wiles-unpleasant-admission/
- Published: 2020-11-01T19:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-11-02T19:50:18.000Z
- Author: Guest Post
- Tags: COVID-19, Featured, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38

[covidplanb.co.nz](https://www.covidplanb.co.nz/category/our-posts/?ref=goodoil.news)

An early proponent of New Zealand’s elimination strategy has now [admitted](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/123224145/coronavirus-siouxsie-wiles-says-covid-vaccine-wont-bring-us-back-to-what-life-was-like-in-2019?ref=goodoil.news) that the approach means the country cannot go back to normal.

In early interviews, **Siouxsie Wiles** claimed to be “[excited](https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/oxfords-covid-19-vaccine-trial-really-promising-kiwi-scientist-siouxsie-wiles-says?ref=goodoil.news)” about vaccines for COVID-19, but now says the early ones are unlikely to prevent death or transmission (see [BMJ assessment](https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4037?ref=goodoil.news) of lead vaccines).

Wiles says this is particularly problematic for New Zealand because it “stamped out” COVID-19\. A partially effective vaccine would not allow us to open borders and go back to normal (we presume she means that COVID-19 would re-enter the country and/or resume transmission). Wiles has therefore clarified that it is New Zealand’s strategy **which means New Zealand can not go back to normal.**

This will be surprising and unpleasant news to most citizens. Wiles embraced the strategy and the government’s plan to eliminate and wait for a vaccine.  
This is precisely the dilemma that Covid Plan B predicted would happen, and why we opposed the elimination and lockdown strategy.

We said that if elimination was the goal, our quandary was that we could not have a situation where COVID-19 was in transmission. Which meant we had to wait until a totally effective vaccine was available. We doubted that such a vaccine would be ready even in 2021.

In her *Stuff* article, Wiles seems to be happy with the idea that this isolation is the new normal. We are not.

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