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Which ones? South Korea, Vietnam, China and Australia all come to mind, they are all facing Delta waves now.

graeme 5y ago
South Korea never aimed at elimination, important distinction. They aimed to keep circulation low. Australia’s NSW also did not aim to eliminate. Other australian states do, and have their borders closed to NSW. Complicated story down there. Victoria China has beaten the delta wave, down to 26 cases a day from 100. I expect they’ll hit zero. New Zealand on the same track, as is Taiwan. The Atlantic region of Canada was another example. Vietname I’ll admit has now failed. Not sure if they changed policies or simply couldn’t do it now with Delta. Then there are some caribbean islands. And that’s about the full list of countries worldwide that did try for zero. Every other country aimed for mitigation.
- makomk 5y ago
  I think you're reversing cause and effect there. The reason NSW and now Victoria in Australia are no longer aiming to eliminate Covid is because their efforts to do so simply did not work once the Delta variant hit and could not be made to work. Similarly, Vietnam couldn't do it either - they went so far as completely stopping people living in the most affected city from leaving their homes even to buy food, despite not being able to put in place any working way of delivering food to all 9 million people living there, because lesser measures hadn't worked, and that also didn't work.
- kongin 5y ago
  >Australia’s NSW also did not aim to eliminate. Other australian states do, and have their borders closed to NSW. Complicated story down there. Victoria Victoria has had 6 or 7 waves of Covid (depends how you count it) and failed only at the last one. This came at the cost of human rights violations, police brutality, the largest non-wartime increase in government debt, a tripling of teen suicides, night time curfew and a cumulative 220 days of lockdown with no end in sight. At this point euthanising everyone over 70 could be a viable policy with less long term harm than continuing with the current policies.

South Korea never aimed at elimination, important distinction. They aimed to keep circulation low. Australia’s NSW also did not aim to eliminate. Other australian states do, and have their borders closed to NSW. Complicated story down there. Victoria China has beaten the delta wave, down to 26 cases a day from 100. I expect they’ll hit zero. New Zealand on the same track, as is Taiwan. The Atlantic region of Canada was another example. Vietname I’ll admit has now failed. Not sure if they changed policies or simply couldn’t do it now with Delta. Then there are some caribbean islands. And that’s about the full list of countries worldwide that did try for zero. Every other country aimed for mitigation.

makomk 5y ago
I think you're reversing cause and effect there. The reason NSW and now Victoria in Australia are no longer aiming to eliminate Covid is because their efforts to do so simply did not work once the Delta variant hit and could not be made to work. Similarly, Vietnam couldn't do it either - they went so far as completely stopping people living in the most affected city from leaving their homes even to buy food, despite not being able to put in place any working way of delivering food to all 9 million people living there, because lesser measures hadn't worked, and that also didn't work.
kongin 5y ago
>Australia’s NSW also did not aim to eliminate. Other australian states do, and have their borders closed to NSW. Complicated story down there. Victoria Victoria has had 6 or 7 waves of Covid (depends how you count it) and failed only at the last one. This came at the cost of human rights violations, police brutality, the largest non-wartime increase in government debt, a tripling of teen suicides, night time curfew and a cumulative 220 days of lockdown with no end in sight. At this point euthanising everyone over 70 could be a viable policy with less long term harm than continuing with the current policies.