{"id":34602,"date":"2021-07-31T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/30\/bots-and-scalpers-desperate-kiwis-try-everything-to-get-into-fortress-new-zealand"},"modified":"2021-07-31T05:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T20:00:10","slug":"bots-and-scalpers-desperate-kiwis-try-everything-to-get-into-fortress-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34602","title":{"rendered":"Bots and scalpers: desperate Kiwis try everything to get into Fortress New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealanders stranded abroad are growing increasingly frustrated with the country\u2019s over-subscribed quarantine system<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In the age of coronavirus, New Zealand can seem like an idyll: a tightly sealed hermit kingdom, recently rated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/28\/new-zealand-rated-best-place-to-survive-global-societal-collapse\">best place to survive global societal collapse<\/a>, and one of the last countries in the world to evade incursions from the Delta variant. But the walls of fortress New Zealand aren\u2019t only successful at keeping out Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>With demand for government-required quarantine greatly exceeding the supply of spaces, desperate New Zealanders are going to enormous lengths \u2013 employing bots, coders, and $2000 booking assistants \u2013 to try to secure entry to the country. For many, the emotional and psychological toll is enormous.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/30\/bots-and-scalpers-desperate-kiwis-try-everything-to-get-into-fortress-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealanders stranded abroad are growing increasingly frustrated with the country\u2019s over-subscribed quarantine systemIn the age of coronavirus, New Zealand can seem like an idyll: a tightly sealed hermit kingdom, recently rated best place to survive &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34603,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34602\/revisions\/34603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}