Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "Coronavirus: Ireland now has world's highest COVID-19 infection rate" video.
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@ripvanwinkle4532 there is no travel restrictions and in fact the US model all states has an inbuilt virus spread accelerator. You lockdown business in one state or county with high case rates to encourage people to travel to low infection areas, the virus couldn't ask for anything better and the best example of how to spread a virus with a partial lockdown. No state or national border in the US has hotel quarantine. As far as the partisan arguments variations in weather and densities make a big difference. South Dakota is probably the worst jurisdiction on the planet for killing it's citizens with no big city and about 40% rural population yet 0.18% of population dead, I think they found a way to infect farmers. Lockdown countries with border quarantine include China, Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam, Australia and New Zealand, other countries maybe falling of the rails but same policies in general South Korea, Japan and Thailand. None of these countries have anywhere near the deaths per capita of continuous lockdown lite countries and on average are actually lockdown less, just restrictions as required. My city Brisbane Australia went into a 3 day lockdown over a weekend without a single case of community transmission, the reason was because of a quarantine breach with a cleaner at a quarantine hotel, I don't think they found any cases and lockdown lite up to the 14 days period need to wear mask. Population highly compliant back to normal in a couple of weeks most likely. About 450 cases of community transmission in a state of about 5,000,000 and 7 deaths I think, so full lockdowns certainly work and partial lockdowns especially the US model ensures spread throughout all major states and territory even Hawaii , Alaska and Puerto Rico that are geographically isolated, done better than almost all mainland states but by international standards given low level of difficulties very poorly.
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@ripvanwinkle4532 Constitutionally it's the same with Australia and the US and the non enforced voluntary quarantine is no different legally speaking than hotel quarantine. Australia's federal government has worked with the states and set the framework , most states were the ones to close borders to other infectious states, the federal government initially didn't want that, however has provided limited support with the military, unarmed but doing things like hotel quarantine, border checkpoints and in a couple of cases provided some medical personal which obviously is very limited. Lockdown lite is the worst of both worlds, destroys business and as many deaths anyway especially with the US policy, but to do absolutely nothing like that state I mentioned it would be even worse, at least poor people can't travel because no means and this probably reduces their deaths a little. If you were in Australia you would most likely be ok with restrictions because they get results, some people still nervous though and think we will fail but that's just a psychological condition without any real basis at this stage. Mentally I think you will find Australian or New Zealanders are doing better than people in US , UK and Canada where it never seems to end and vaccines are pretty much the eggs all in one basket approach, hopefully it works but it's not guaranteed. Anyway take care and personally speaking even it seems bad it would be good for the US to lockdown properly for 12 weeks and most states would be virus free or close to it, I doubt it will ever happen though with currently 0 states willing to close the borders.
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