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didnt Australia have that idea and it worked for over 1 year, but Covid still arrived and still tore through communities, not sure what stalling it with lockdowns achieves now as a very high % of people who want vaccines have had them by now ( the people who haven't are not likely to think, oh we have stalled the virus for another 3 months, I might aswell have my jabs now )
I mean, it IS particularly shit in England. No might about it.
Maybe, I'd even say it's probably had an influence on our figures. Everything else from the other side of the border affects us, why wouldn't this?
Restrictions DO work though. There is no debate really. Like I said, go look at Japan or NZ or Korea's death rate during the pandemic. The stats from England (UK) are very, very bad.
I suspect the economic downturn after Brexit is playing a role in BJ's policies.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-...aths/100732338
over 21K in NSW over christmas
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-...ise-/100746772
over 25K yesterday ( Monday )
the point is lockdowns / restrictions only buy you time till you have everyone vaccinated , we all knew that ( we ( and Australia ) must be close to that point as everyone has had the opportunity ( of course if you can't have the vaccine that doesn't apply to you and you need all the luck god has ) so further restrictions appear to be just a delaying tactic, but delaying till when ? ?
Delay until enough vaccines , so Health Services and other services dont get overwhelmed.
People are moaning about restrictions in Wales. Completely incomparable to Australia and Western Australia in particular.
When this pandemic is over the death rates will show if Australia handled this better than the UK.
oh I agree but both us and Australia ( I know NSW has ) have empty vaccine slots every day, so the people who are going to have the vaccines have had them ( apart from a small % of people who were slow on the uptake, 22K 1st jabs yesterday here, at least they are on the road I guess )
we will see Australia handled it better at the start, but as soon as they relaxed restrictions ( especially in NSW ) the virus arrived and spread, but at what expense to peoples jobs and mental health and health in general
maybe in Australia now had real trouble getting tested recently, seemed to take forever
Do you think the reverse might also be true?
You’ve said England’s figures are really BAD. But what about the Welsh figures?
Is it the case that anything positive is down to the Welsh government, while anything negative is down to the English government?
It seems to me that some of us want to believe that. But I certainly don’t. I believe both governments are utterly hopeless.
I have no idea whether the situation is worse in Wales other than comments I have heard on the radio and TV suggesting that the situation in Wales (and Scotland) is worse despite the stricter conditions both countries employ. Incidentally earlier posts suggesting that the situation in Wales is bad because of its proximity to England is ludicrous as the reverse could be equally true.
I agree with this comment: "Is it the case that anything positive is down to the Welsh government, while anything negative is down to the English government?
It seems to me that some of us want to believe that. But I certainly don’t. I believe both governments are utterly hopeless"......................................... except to say some governments are more hopeless than others.