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New Zealand has done a pretty good job over the last two years. Whether the costs outweigh the benefits is a separate question

Economically or in terms of mortality/morbidity, it’s not obvious that there was a better strategy for New Zealand.

The article claims that covid is in all Antarctic bases, but I wasn’t aware that Scott base had any. I can’t find any reports of it either.

That’s beside the point. It is possible to keep covid out. There are costs and benefits to that.

The ISS has remained covid free. Kiribati has too. Tonga had one person arrive with covid but it didn’t progress.

Thats over the last 21 days. There was 47 community cases yesterday.

Since vaccinating they’ve relaxed restrictions

And poorly behaved DJs aside, it’s going ok.

Time will tell if the policies in place will deal with Omicron, though.