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Originally Posted by 10023
Australians had HUGE disruptions to daily life, starting with not being allowed to leave the country (or at least come back if they left). Their approach was not a winner. Nor could it have been replicated in the US or Europe, but that’s a different matter.
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It's funny that Americans often look at Australia as a great example of #zerocovid but there are better examples right by the US border.
The Maritimes were ~0 covid for a lot of the pandemic (with isolation requirements but no travel bans), then got vaccinated relatively quickly, and are now open up to travel. Australia botched its vaccination rollout and Melbourne specifically just seems crazy, with a response that appears tuned to a pre-antibiotic Black Death level pathogen. I think suppressing transmission when the vaccine rollout was inevitable then opening up after general availability of vaccines is a pretty good trade-off.
Here in BC our fatality rate is 0.04% of the population after 20 months or so, or about 12 days of life lost per capita due to covid deaths. Looking at it that way, what would people suggest should have been changed to get that 0.04% down to 0.02% or even 0%?