I mean you do realize that the reason barely anyone has died of covid in Australia is because of the measures they’ve taken? Your country is barely vaccinated. Have you watched the news from other parts of the world? Far more people are dying from this than the flu.
Ok. I've posted about this bs narrative before that 'Australia responded so well initially' but that was a while ago, so I'll go again.
We did nothing the rest of the world didn't do. We had a nationwide lockdown at the start like everywhere else. Flights to and from -
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, pretty much like everywhere else
. That then shifted not long after to flights to and from anywhere, pretty much like everywhere else. Mask mandates were only brought in in 1 state in August of last year (incidentally the state with the most deaths, both at the time and still now). Our Prime Minister, has copped plenty of flack from the local media and elsewhere about how its all been handled (case in point Funkmillers response below). Pretty much like every other head of state across the world. Our most populous state of around 8 million, has had 54 deaths, and they only did the initial lockdown until June/July last year, and have been operating somewhat normally since. Whereas the state that's now had 4 lockdowns accounts for 820 of the 909 deaths.
The only thing that probably helped us, was being a big fuck off island, somewhat out of the way of the rest of the world. Anything else I just don't see.
Australia has gone absolutely mental. Last year it was a model of how to deal with Covid, but since then it’s gone completely in the opposite direction. The overreaction now is ridiculous. Partly because Morrison and his government of fuckwits can’t get a decent vaccination program going, and partly because the country is trying to suppress Covid completely. This will never happen, and the country is likely to stay in lockdown for years if it doesn’t change its attitude. I’m a fully vaccinated half Australian, and I can’t get back in without jumping through endless hoops that make it pretty much impossible to do. And there’s no signs of anything loosening any time soon. The Aussie economy is going to eventually tank if they don’t grow a set of balls, and start loosening things sensibly, and speed up the vaccine rollout properly.
I can agree with most (not all) of this. However it's mostly just here in Victoria thats gone completely mental. And thats largely due to an incompetent state government led by a wannabe dictator that likes to make up rules for the sake of making rules. Though I probably shouldn't go too much into that as that's obviously going to get a bit too political. The other states have certainly had some completely irrational moments too, but they haven't had to deal with the amount of cases and deaths as Vic.
New South Wales is the one place that's handled this with any modicum of sense, but as I type that, I'm hearing on the news in the background about an outbreak there (26 cases in the last 2 days amongst 8 million people is an 'outbreak' apparently), and they've mandated masks indoors for the first time so we'll see how that plays out.
Either way we can certainly agree society needs to learn to live with this thing. Especially with the golden bullet vaccine now available. From what I've seen most of the US has come around on that, but we still do snap lockdowns as soon as someone gets a cough.
And yeah, even if you have an aussie passport its still pretty hard to get in apparently. Which goes against whats written on the inside of the passport stating that you'll always be granted unimpeded access to the country should you require it. But hey, who's this Governor General guy anyway, and why's he writing nonsense on my passport for...
