Just ask New Zealand's amazing prime minister Jacinda Ardern.
Got a few tears welling up in your eyes? Join the club. As we navigate the unprecedented measures being put into place due to the global health crisis, Ardern’s is the type of leadership you look for: decisive and practical, yet simultaneously thoughtful and compassionate. It’s a far cry from the leadership some of us are currently struggling to understand.
In the midst of such dark days, Ardern is somehow still managing to spread a little magic. She may not be the leader we all have, but she’s the kind of leader we all need right now. This isn’t the first time in the coronavirus outbreak that New Zealand’s prime minister has been praised for her measured response. For starters, New Zealand has what epidemiologists likehave pegged as the “most decisive and strongest lockdown in the world at the moment” — a nationwide lockdown instituted on March 25 .
Ardern also holds daily televised briefings and routine Facebook live sessions to address key questions and issues in a way that is palatable for the public. And when it comes to her people, she clearly believes that everyone is actually essential. When asked about deferring to herd immunity as a strategy, she responded, “In New Zealand we never, ever considered that as a possibility, ever. Herd immunity would have meant tens of thousands of New Zealanders dying, and I simply would not tolerate that.”
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