Indeed.the Swedish model is interesting, only time will tell whether it was the most appropriate approach
Well most are not as in your face as Andrews, he started with a bang and it hasn't seemed to have fizzled.
Maybe it is just a Victorian thing, Jeff Kennett was of a similar mould, from memory.
Jeff Kennett was an ex army officer used to giving orders and having them obeyed, which is why he was such an arrogant c***.
He redeemed himself a bit by founding BeyondBlue and was one of the first I can remember to bring the subject of mental illness into the public view.
The WHO merely confirms that lockdowns are "blunt tool."
Singapore has failed as well.The WHO merely confirms that lockdowns are "blunt tool."
Australia has failed in many areas:
Australians have, unfortunately, shown a level of selfish disregard that precludes us from adopting the Swedish model.
- poor strategy for handling international arrivals and those crossing borders
- POCT could have been used as a first level of assessment at all borders for everyone, without exception
- full address and contact details should have been collected from all border crossers
- all positive cases should have been removed to isolation centres until virus traces disappeared (Wuhan model)
- aged care facilities should have been subjected to mandatory audits to ensure every worker was trained to a high level in COVID-safe practices, that all necessary PPE was available and being used, and that facilities were actually following strict safety and compliance regimes, rather than simply having "paper plans"
- daily POCT testing of staff should have been occurring
- mandatory wearing of masks in public should have been enacted long ago and certainly before numbers got out of control (not afterwards), and there should be no exceptions
On the economic front, we have not thought through business/activities that are low risk and have continued with broad brush closures as lockdowns became progressively more severe. For example, I have never worked out how 2 people playing a round of golf without a golf cart could pose a risk of spread.
No data to suggest that is the case.Singapore has failed as well.
They have had a second waveNo data to suggest that is the case.
I swear this was dreamt up by 4chan and taken up by idiots.
Please check your data.They have had a second wave
They are back at number 17 for deaths per % of pop. That's a failure to contain....
I don't get why protesters have to loot, I guess there are some strange people in the world.I swear this was dreamt up by 4chan and taken up by idiots.
I don't get why its so hard to wear a mask.
You are correct, hit the wrong tally. And the list looks completely different.Please check your data.
They had a mild second wave and rank in the bottom quartile of the 195 countries in the world, with half as many deaths per capita than Australia.
It is arguably unproven that they've achieved it but WA, NT, SA, Tas and NZ are all in the situation of seemingly having eliminated it within the local population. To the extent they've got any ongoing issues, it's with people who've arrived from somewhere else notably Vic. Hence they've all now become extremely tight in terms of letting anyone in.
Whilst those places all have lower populations and population density than Victoria does, Perth with it's population of 2 million, Auckland with 1.65 million and Adelaide with 1.3 million in their urban areas aren't exactly small country towns. They're all proper cities, they've all got reasonably large buildings, they've all got public transport and so on.
Perth, Adelaide, Auckland, NT, Tasmania, regional WA, SA and NZ. There's a fair diversity there of population density and climate. If they've managed to actually do it then I'm not at all convinced that it isn't possible to do it in Victoria.
If it turns out that they haven't done it, if new cases crop up in Perth or Hobart or wherever, well then that idea might be a dud but at the moment it seems at least possible that elimination may have been achieved in these places. If nobody's turning up with symptoms, if tests aren't finding any cases, then possibly it has actually died out.
From a governance perspective, I don't know what they've all done but in SA it has largely been left to the experts, politicians taking a few steps back. The Chief Public Health Officer and the Police Commissioner have both gained a celebrity-like status to some extent amidst it all, they've been routinely on the news and so on and both have been clear and to the point in layman's terms.
Tasmania went the other way and formed a loose Liberal-Labor-Greens coalition of sorts (the Liberals are in government in Tas) and suspended normal politics for the specific purpose of dealing with the pandemic. In doing so that removed political considerations from the equation and enabled the focus to be on stamping it out.
No protesters are looting in Australia.I don't get why protesters have to loot, I guess there are some strange people in the world.
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