The infected areas went into a 2 month complete lockdown. With completely empty streets.
If everyone in England would stay at home for 2 months, the virus would die out there too.
But we keep shopping, driving to castles to get our eyes checked, etc.
I’m not saying the Chinese solution would work in Europe. And I’m not saying I completely believe their figures. But, their lockdown was near 100% effective.
@shavixmir saidLockdown worked here too. It won't work in any population where significant numbers of people can't be persuaded to temporarily suspend their personal liberties for the greater good.
The infected areas went into a 2 month complete lockdown. With completely empty streets.
If everyone in England would stay at home for 2 months, the virus would die out there too.
But we keep shopping, driving to castles to get our eyes checked, etc.
I’m not saying the Chinese solution would work in Europe. And I’m not saying I completely believe their figures. But, their lockdown was near 100% effective.
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-Removed-That may have been true in October, but things were back to near-normal and the economy has already recovered. That was true until Xmas gatherings coincided with a testing misunderstanding to set off a small local outbreak. Australia-wide (25 million population) we have 220 active cases today, 139 of which are returning expats in hotel quarantine. 21 cases are in hospital, none serious, mostly aged care folk unable to be returned to their care homes yet. Our nursing staff and emergency workers were mostly able to spend Xmas with their families.
The mental health thing became a problem during lockdown but once that ended anxiety levels dropped quickly.
Vaccination is the only thing that will end it, and in the meantime we have 3-level contact tracing, high levels of testing and daily detailed factual information to keep us calm. We know we've been lucky, but we've all helped that luck along with large applications of personal effort.
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-Removed-Since China controls all figures coming from their tightly controlled country, and has a long record of manipulating/making up figures, there's no way of doing that, other than to point out how ridiculous their claim is.
4600 Covid deaths total for all of last year? Where the virus originated?
Really? And almost no new cases in the second wave the whole world is now going through?
You can't trust a commie.
@joe-shmo saidWell that’s clearly a factor n the big US Towns and Cities but why haven’t the more sparsely populated areas of the US done better.
NZ is tiny. Less than 5 million inhabitants. Population density half that of the US. Austrailia 1/10 the US pop, and 1/10 th the population density. Do you think they are honestly on equal footing in terms of risk/reward with a country like the US?
I’m sure population density is a given in terms of factors but so is adherence to lock down and mask guidance and that’s where both the US and certainly the UK have performed really badly.