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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/canberra-records-new-case-of-covid-19-sending-act-into-lockdown/100370616 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/canberra
by nsonha 5y ago
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/canberra-records-new-case-of-covid-19-sending-act-into-lockdown/100370616 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/canberra-records-new-...
4 cases for the population of 431,215, but the presummable point remains, is this justified?
Melbourne is currently in the 6th lockdown, may this be the future of governing moving forward?
Lockdown does solve every problem ever I guess, gun violence, traffic accidents... you name it.
- King-Aaron 5y agoSnap lockdowns have proven effective at slowing and stopping the transmission of the virus, and it has been proven time and time again that a handful of these cases can become hundreds very rapidly. Personally I think it's quite justified, the question is how long can this strategy go on for.
- explodingman 5y ago> the question is how long can this strategy go on for. Australia's strategy involves relaxing/reducing lockdowns when vaccination rates reach 70% and again at 80%. These levels are less ambitious than they seem because they don't count the 20% of the population under 16 years old. Other thresholds are: * when vaccines become available to anyone, which should be the case by December (Australia's vaccine roll out has been excruciatingly slow) * the national budget anticipates opening up in the middle of 2022 My expectation is that the country will spend the first half of 2022 screaming and arm-twisting at the vaccine hesitant to get jabbed, and will then open up anyway on June 30.
- landemva 5y agoI read that drug overdose, alcohol poisoning, and suicide have increased. May need a few years to study this...