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Snap 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 c

• 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.