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Bad lockdowns are bullshit. Australian bands are playing full on shows these days no problem because they did/do it with discipline.
by Griffinsauce 6y ago
Bad lockdowns are bullshit. Australian bands are playing full on shows these days no problem because they did/do it with discipline.
- User23 6y agoYou’re confusing government policy with being an island. Hawaii has the lowest rate in the USA and California has the highest despite the latter having strictest lockdowns in the country. Granted a sufficiently incompetent government can throw away the advantage being an island provides. Looking at you UK.
- dkdk8283 6y agoCalifornia presumably has one of the highest compliance rates yet is still one of the worst affected.
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- ryandrake 6y agoIf you're relying on individuals making sensible risk assessments and voluntarily complying, you've already lost the battle. See also: drunk driving and seatbelt use.
- flukus 6y agoYou're confusing being an island with becoming one, any nation can be an island if they close their borders. In Australia we had islands inside the island, several states with land borders closed them to the rest of the country and have enjoyed normality since May.
- mensetmanusman 6y agoIn principal any nation can become an island. Not in practice.
- makomk 6y agoEven with the massive advantage of being an island, in order to achieve that Australia had to close their borders back when the WHO and the press in every Western country was insisting that doing so was xennphobic and counterproductive, lock down strictly for months (two weeks would not cut it here), they imprisoned a bunch of their poor in tower blocks under conditions so reminisicent of these cruise ships that it was apparently a human rights violation... and in the end they only got a short-lived success out of it, because now there are new outbreaks which are leading to new lockdowns there yet again.