pk1 wrote:
devashish_paul wrote:
Anyway, I think NZ's relative isolation has helped (more than pure luck).
yeah, i guess i use luck to cover a variety of circumstances, most particularly our physical isolation and our low population density
IMNZ is a prime example of how we also got lucky - that sort of large international event being held as the virus took hold over the world could so easily have been the end of us - NZ is in no way prepared to handle a serious outbreak.
at about the same time we also held the World Hereford Conference which did lead to a significant covid cluster but fortunately cows don't attract large crowds and the touring pre- and post-conference seems to have been mostly within the conference group on buses so didn't spread it too much. IM competitors tend towards DIY tours after the race so could have spread it far and wide.
canada seems to have done really well given the connectedness with the US in particular
haha....now Canada is equally isolated to New Zealand as we have created our virtual island and even between some provinces there are virtual islands still. In any case in teh province next door where I am allowed to go, youth sports are starting to roll and the organizers of the Esprit Triathlons in Montreal (sprint, olympic, half, duathlons, corporate), is tentatively ON on Sept 12-13 AND they are putting their Irondistance back on deck. They ran this full IM for 20+ years before it was killed by IM Tremblant, but now that Tremblant is off, they are seeing if there is interest in this time for people wanting to race an IM again. I will likely go if numbers keep tapering down, but people are also acting like idiots now that summer is here.
But the moment we open up border to USA, everything will go to US numbers since so many have business and personal reasons to be in the US and from eastern Canada, many have properties in Florida.