{"id":37710,"date":"2021-10-06T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/06\/perfect-storm-how-covid-is-compounding-new-zealands-existing-social-crises"},"modified":"2021-10-06T03:00:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T18:00:03","slug":"perfect-storm-how-covid-is-compounding-new-zealands-existing-social-crises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37710","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Perfect storm\u2019: how Covid is compounding New Zealand\u2019s existing social crises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say the pandemic is multiplying longstanding problems linked to housing and racial inequality<\/p>\n<p>Like clay pressed into a mould, Covid outbreaks tend to conform to the contours of a country\u2019s existing inequalities and cracks, replicating them over again.<\/p>\n<p>Social scientists have called the pandemic a \u201cthreat multiplier\u201d, taking existing social problems, and compounding their force. In New Zealand, the country\u2019s growing Delta outbreak is now interweaving with longstanding housing affordability crisis and racial inequalities. As the government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/04\/new-zealand-covid-strategy-in-transition-ardern-says-as-auckland-awaits-lockdown-decision\">continues to loosen restrictions<\/a>, experts say a growing outbreak will make those divides more and more pronounced.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/06\/perfect-storm-how-covid-is-compounding-new-zealands-existing-social-crises\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say the pandemic is multiplying longstanding problems linked to housing and racial inequalityLike clay pressed into a mould, Covid outbreaks tend to conform to the contours of a country\u2019s existing inequalities and cracks, replicating them over &#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-37710","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\/37710","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=37710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37711,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37710\/revisions\/37711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}