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Is there a single democratic country that was able to respond like this?
by dustingetz 6y ago
Is there a single democratic country that was able to respond like this?
- AnotherGoodName 6y agoMelbourne Australia is taking this approach right now. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12354763 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&obj... Everything closed except food retail. Unlike the US where essential was defined slightly more broadly to include hardware stores and such. Contact tracing every individual who tests positive. The highest testing rates in the world. etc. It even gets into the extent where some sections of the city have buildings locked down completely. No one in or out. This is enforced with armed police. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8491177/Victorians-donated-250K-24-hours-public-housing-residents-locked-Melbourne-towers.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8491177/Victorians-... Americans might look at this in horror but in Australia the policy is popular and most people are accepting it as a necessity. There's also healthy competition between Australia and New Zealand here. We can't let the Kiwis embarrass us on this!
- ryandrake 6y agoSadly, we Americans look in horror at anything that might briefly inconvenience us. Heaven forbid we're prevented from going to Olive Garden, getting our hair done, and buying khakis. Which is why real lockdowns were never tried here, stay-at-home "suggestions" were not successful here, and we've become the epicenter.
- gruez 6y agotaiwan, japan, south korea?
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoJapan specifically chooses not to do mass testing because they don't think it's effective.