红遍华人社区的新西兰小哥安柏然，他对新西兰抗疫防疫有话说！
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在上海工作、生活的新西兰人安柏然（Andy Boreham），说着流利的中文。本周末，他特别为新西兰信报撰写了专栏文章，讲述他最近往返中新两国，对两国防控新冠病毒措施的观察与思考。
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自从新冠病毒疫情爆发以来，我一直居住在上海。我们知道新冠肺炎最初是在湖北武汉开始流行起来的。在疫情最黑暗的时期，我连续40天每天都拍视频vlog，帮助上海和世界各地的人了解中国的抗疫。
在那段时间里，我的生活围绕新冠病毒展开。因此，我对该病毒的一切都非常了解，尤其是在上海和整个中国的抗疫措施方面。
这就是为什么当有消息传出我的祖国新西兰的病例数量迅速攀升，而新西兰却没有以我认为对的方式处理疫情时，我感到失望。人们仍然像往常一样生活，没有人戴口罩或手套之类的防护装备。面对这种传染病，我们的政府似乎一无所知。
然后，总理阿德恩（Jacinda Ardern）似乎毫无目的地宣布，所有飞往新西兰的旅客，包括新西兰人，都需要接受两周的隔离。公告的突然性和措施的严肃性让我感到惊讶。政府说，新西兰的边境管制将是世界上最严格的管制之一。
我决定尽快返回“长白云之乡”，因为根据这些措施，航空公司将尽力保持航班畅通，让新西兰人回家。第二天，在东京成田机场经过短暂的中转后，我飞回了新西兰。
安柏然在上海。作者提供
我从日本飞往新西兰的航班是新西兰航空（Air New Zealand），他们为防范新冠病毒所做的准备令人震惊。首先，面具、护目镜或其他任何防护装置一个也没有。大多数乘客是返家的新西兰人，也没有戴任何防护。
第二天早8点左右，飞机降落在奥克兰，并且是根据新的隔离措施首先进入奥克兰的航班之一。“你准备自我隔离两个星期了吗？”一位新西兰航空的机组人员开玩笑地说。
我对新西兰的疫情防范措施感到非常失望。
下飞机后，我看到有两个人正在分发COVID-19手册，没戴口罩、手套或任何其他保护措施。我填了表格，然后进行了健康检查。有人问我：“你是否感到不舒服？”问我的工作人员甚至没有读我填写的表格。“没有。”我回答。她随即给了我一份自我隔离的表格，并在短短五秒钟内就让我通过了。
（注：因为担心滞留新西兰而不能如期返回中国工作，安柏然只在新西兰短暂待了一天，与家人匆匆见面，随即离开，回到上海）
回到中国后，我从奥克兰乘坐新西兰航空的航班再次回到日本东京。同样，没有一个机组人员穿着防护装备。他们提供食物，与乘客开玩笑，帮乘客提行李。
这与我的春秋航空航班飞往上海的情形相去甚远。飞往上海的航班上，在整个飞行过程中，机组人员都穿着全套防护装备。在上海，我经历了许多检查步骤，然后才被允许进入，包括对我的健康状况和去过的地方的详细问询，并对我的体温进行了六次检查。
之后，我被送往我居住的静安区的社区卫生所进行新冠病毒检测。我们在公共汽车上睡了8个小时，等待轮到我们，在诊所里又等了14个小时，才终于被允许回家隔离。
相比之下，奥克兰的检查过程只有五秒钟。
我制作了一段关于我短暂往返两国经历的视频，并迅速在网上传播开来。仅在Facebook上就有超过100万的观看次数，并且在新西兰媒体中也有报道。此后不久，总理宣布整个国家将被封锁四个星期。
那真是个好消息，因为我敢肯定，这是我们这个小国可以战胜新冠病毒的唯一途径。我之前认为，我们的政府不会采取如此严格的措施，现在我对他们采取的措施感到很欣慰。
不过，仍然存在一个问题，那就是新西兰人对戴口罩的态度。在亚洲和世界许多地方，口罩一直是对抗COVID-19的必备标志。但新西兰根本没有建议使用口罩。
这可能是由于新西兰人口稀少，人们通常能够保持一米的距离，但是在某些情况下，戴上口罩被证明是非常重要的。
根据新西兰卫生部的资料，其中包括无法保持最小一米距离的情况，例如：在飞机上。
新西兰航空最近宣布，他们的8名工作人员被检测出COVID-19均为阳性，我一点也不感到惊讶。新西兰进入锁定状态的那一天，新西兰航空仍在运送新西兰人回国。即使在世界各地疫情大爆发时，新西兰航空的机组人员仍未得到充分保护。有些戴着口罩，有些没有。
我为我们的政府现在全国范围内，采取如此严格的封锁措施而感到自豪，这些措施比上海曾经的措施更加严厉。但是，在理解戴口罩和手套的重要性方面仍然存在巨大差距，尤其是在需要紧密接触的情况下。
我将继续推动变革，并希望改变能在人们死于新冠病毒之前实现。
安柏然的英文原文如下：
I’d been in Shanghai ever since the start of this new, mystery illness that we all knew had started to take hold in Wuhan, Hubei province. For 40 days in a row, right during the darkest period, I made video reports every day to help people in Shanghai and around the world understand what was going on here.
Over that time, my life revolved around novel coronavirus, or COVID-19 as it would later be called. That’s why I now feel, at least in a very general sense, that I’m pretty clued up about everything to do with the virus, especially when it comes to how Shanghai and China have battled it.
That’s why I was disappointed when news emerged that cases were climbing rapidly in my home country, New Zealand, and they weren’t being dealt with how I felt they should be. People were still going about their daily lives as usual, no one was wearing protective gear like masks or gloves, and our government seemed clueless in the face of an epidemic.
Then our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced, seemingly out of nowhere, that all passengers flying into New Zealand, including Kiwis, would need to undergo two-week quarantine. I was taken aback, both by the suddenness of the announcement and by the seriousness of the measures. New Zealand’s border controls would be among the strictest in the world, the government said.
I made the decision to head back to the Land of the Long White Cloud as soon as possible because I knew, based on those measures, that airlines operating international services to New Zealand would seriously struggle to keep flights open at all. The next day I was flying towards my home country, after a short transit at Tokyo’s Narita airport.
Andy helps a colleague’s kid to learn English. Photo courtesy of the author
Andy with his cat at his Shanghai flat. Photo courtesy of the author
My flight from Japan down to New Zealand was with Air New Zealand, who were shockingly ill-prepared for a world under the threat of novel coronavirus.
Not a single member of the crew wore masks, or goggles, or any other protection. Having said that, neither did most of the passengers who, I assume, were mostly Kiwis returning home.
At around 8am the next morning we landed in Auckland, and were among the first entering the country under the new quarantine measures. “Are you ready for two weeks stuck inside?” an Air New Zealand crew member joked.
I was about to be sorely disappointed with my country’s preparedness.
My first sight was two men handing out COVID-19 brochures, without masks or gloves or any other protection. I filled in the form and then went for my health screening. “Have you been feeling unwell at all?” the woman asked without even reading the form I filled out. I would have thought she might have been a bit more thorough since I had just come from China. “No,” I replied. She gave me a form on self-isolation and sent me through, all in just five seconds.
On my return to China I once again stopped in Tokyo, Japan after a flight from Auckland on Air New Zealand. Again, not a single crew member wore protective gear. They served food, they joked with passengers, they helped people with their bags.
That was a far cry from the scene on my Spring Airlines flight to Shanghai, where the crew wore full protective gear during the entire flight. In Shanghai I was put through a myriad of steps before being allowed to enter, including an interview about my health and where I’d been, and my temperature being taken half a dozen times.
After that I was bussed to a community health clinic in Jing’an District, where I live, for a novel coronavirus test. We slept eight hours on the bus waiting for our turn, and waited another 14 hours in the clinic before finally being allowed to go home for quarantine.
That, compared with a five second question in Auckland.
I made a video about my experience and it went viral, with well over one million views on Facebook alone, as well as mentions in New Zealand media. Soon after that, the Prime Minister announced the entire country would be locked down for four weeks.
That was great news, since I’m sure it’s the only way our small country can defeat the onslaught of novel coronavirus. I was certain that our government wouldn’t take such strong measures, but I’m so relieved they did.
One problem remains, though, and that’s Kiwis’ attitudes to wearing face masks. In Asia and many places around the world, face masks have been the defining image of the battle against COVID-19. In New Zealand, they are not being recommended at all.
This is probably because of New Zealand’s small population, and the ability for people to normally maintain one-meter distance, but there are some situations where wearing a mask is proven to be very important.
According to New Zealand’s own Ministry of Health, that includes situations where a minimum distance of one meter cannot be maintained, case in point: on planes.
Air New Zealand recently announced that eight of their staff have tested positive for COVID-19, and I’m not at all surprised. The very day New Zealand entered lockdown, Air New Zealand were still flying Kiwis home, and even in the midst of the novel coronavirus outbreak around the world, Air New Zealand crew were still not fully protected. Some wore masks, some didn’t.
I am proud of our government for enacting such strict lockdown measures across the entire country, measures that are even more serious then Shanghai ever had. But there is still a huge gap in the understanding of the importance of wearing masks and gloves, especially in situations where close contact is needed. I will continue to push for change, and hope it comes before people die.