Comments by "Robert A" (@RobertAmer) on "Outbreak: How Australia lost control of the COVID Delta variant | ABC News" video.

The problem is that there was a reliance on voluntary testing. The advertised recommendations were calling for symptomatic people to be testing. The way to have stopped it was to mass test, suburb by suburb, thus picking up asymptomatic people, and removing infected people to a quarantine facility. So it could have been stopped, both picking up infectious people, symptomatic or not, and preventing further spread. These associated with two weeks of stringent lockdowns could have stopped spread and reduced infections to only a few, and possibly zero. Any other way is impossible. That would have been substantially better then the many months of lockdown which continues even to today, and saved the economy possibly billions of dollars. Resource was all that was needed!
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Thought Criminal some times you need to do the hard yards to stop deaths, which did result. Two or three weeks of lockdown is much better then 3 months plus, without achievement.
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Thought Criminal yes, Federal Governments pressure i assume. A bunch of donkeys.
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@blackswan1983 it can be done if spread is stopped, but people need to comply. If people want freedom, this is the way it can be done. As it stands now, even at 80% vaccination rate which equates to only 66% of the population, the exposure to the 34% is too high, infection levels will remain high and lockdowns will continue. Vaccination may not stop catching or spreading the virus, but will likely reduce the effect and shorten recovery time. The aim of the vaccination is to reduce the likely pressure on hospitals.
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@thomasgrabkowski8283 correct! There is currently an outbreak in Pujian, Fujian province of the Delta strain. Watch how it is handled. The problem with the Delta strain, which Australia still has not yet identified, is that it creates many asymptomatic cases, whereby people do not have symptoms but are spreaders. This has been the problem in Melbourne and Sydney, because all the focus has been on symptomatic people to be tested. Meanwhile the infection runs rampant. In Pujian, 16 out of 22 positive cases were Asymptomatic. In China everyone in the city is tested, not just symptomatic. I really don't know how to get this through to our health officials who should be smart enough to look a little further then the end of their noses.
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