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(I'm Australian) Despite the excess COVID deaths in 2022, the super aggressive Australian response to to COVID (closing borders until vaccines were available)
by nl 3y ago
(I'm Australian)
Despite the excess COVID deaths in 2022, the super aggressive Australian response to to COVID (closing borders until vaccines were available) worked really well in comparison to other countries.
You can see this on [1] where Australia jumped from 14th in the world in 2019 to 8th in 2021 (sort by 2021 "all" in the first table).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...
- piva00 3y agoI don't know if that makes much sense as an argument in itself. I looked at the table and Sweden (where I live) we had a very opposite response to COVID than Australia and still saw an increase in life expectancy from 2014-2021, almost on par with Australia (0.9 for SWE, 1.0 for AUS). Sweden fared better than New Zealand which had a similar approach as Australia.