I agree nobody knew at the start of this however many did question the decisions of zero covid, Australia essentially abandoned 40,000 of its citizens that lived overseas but allowed Katie Hopkins into the country for some reality show.To be fair to both Australia and New Zealand, in the beginning nobody really knew what to do for the best and no strategy was fully successful.
Australia with a population of almost 26m and New Zealand with a little over 5m have reported fatalities of only 1,346 and 27 respectively.
Neither economy suffered seriously – Australia also had to contend with the bushfires.
The fact that they have changed their strategies consequent to the Delta variant is to their credit.
I'm not they did a good job in that but this strategy in a global pandemic was wrong in my view.All that may be true but it is difficult to view their case and fatality numbers as an unmitigated failure.
Excellent post Paul.I'm not they did a good job in that but this strategy in a global pandemic was wrong in my view.
If they were even more successful there was a threat, being western style democracies, that the virus could have travelled from other countries, for example via freight, undetected and found a place to harbour and evolve into a new strain, and again put the world at risk.
My arguments might seem very subjective but we knew nothing at the start of all this but once the vaccines were identified as been the way to get some control on the virus globally they should have embraced that strategy not continue with single country strategies.
I know I'm idealistic but this type of nationalism has been seen to be the main cause of probably all the ills the planet and its citizens have suffered and endured for the last 200 years since Thomas Malthus proposed his theory, and its time to change it .
The tens of thousands of their own citizens stranded abroad would have a very different viewAll that may be true but it is difficult to view their case and fatality numbers as an unmitigated failure.
And in all probability most of these were vaccinated.The tens of thousands of their own citizens stranded abroad would have a very different view
It was a stupid policy 2 years ago and the more we learned the more stupid it got.I see the Chinese now having big problems with their zero covid policy. Apparently people looking at the world Cup on TV could see that everyone was mingling and not wearing masks etc so they saw that the CCP was lying about what the rest of the world was doing.
The Chinese Sinovac vaccine is basically useless against these new strains like omicron and the Chinese authorities are too proud to admit that and use the western vaccines like Pfizer and moderna
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