Warrigal
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- Sydney, Australia
The reason Australia in general and the eastern states are resorting to lockdown to stop the spread is that we don't have enough vaccine and we are second last in the developed world when it comes to vaccinating our population.
We have been lucky so far in that even with a numbers of blunders, insufficient availability of vaccines, failure to protect residents of aged care homes, and poorly managed hotel quarantine, the number of cases and the death toll has been very light in comparison to other advanced countries.
The low rate is primarily due to lock downs, social distancing, hand hygiene and mask wearing. It is also due to the willingness of most of us to co-operate with public health orders.
Some of my ancestors came here as involuntary migrants so I'll ignore the penal colony jibe.
Lockdowns in Australia has been one of the measures we have taken to keep the virus from spreading widely in every state and city. The same cannot be said for US and UK where it has penetrated all parts of both countries. Vaccination is what authorities there are counting on now to limit the infection rate.
Australia and New Zealand have chosen a different approach. We are both island nations and that does make a good deal of difference. Should we just throw our hands in the air and just let things rip? How many lives should we sacrifice for a swim at Bondi ? Whose lives are the most expendable?
We have been lucky so far in that even with a numbers of blunders, insufficient availability of vaccines, failure to protect residents of aged care homes, and poorly managed hotel quarantine, the number of cases and the death toll has been very light in comparison to other advanced countries.
The low rate is primarily due to lock downs, social distancing, hand hygiene and mask wearing. It is also due to the willingness of most of us to co-operate with public health orders.
Some of my ancestors came here as involuntary migrants so I'll ignore the penal colony jibe.
Lockdowns in Australia has been one of the measures we have taken to keep the virus from spreading widely in every state and city. The same cannot be said for US and UK where it has penetrated all parts of both countries. Vaccination is what authorities there are counting on now to limit the infection rate.
Australia and New Zealand have chosen a different approach. We are both island nations and that does make a good deal of difference. Should we just throw our hands in the air and just let things rip? How many lives should we sacrifice for a swim at Bondi ? Whose lives are the most expendable?
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