Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "Sydney Australia on lockdown over COVID Delta variant outbreak | DW News" video.

  1. Ignoring your first 2 paragraphs, thanks, although I am not in New South Wales I have confidence they will get it under control, hopefully within the 2 weeks lockdown period they have now. I have heard the communist term towards any country that is successful but not from media, from comments on youtube from people in countries that didn't do so well.
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  2. That's not the case in Australia, maybe is for the US and here's a question for you, even if everyone gets vaccinated and it's worked out 5,000 people will die would you enjoy saying we are opening the borders this will kill 5,000 people? The US still has 2,000 deaths a week it's just they ignore it, Australia's population is one fifteenth of the US. If Australia now started having 150 deaths a week which would be equivalent almost everyone would get angry.
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  3. First of all you don't lockdown everyone , that would be silly, you prevent it from spreading to the entire country. It's got nothing to do with population size, in fact take closing an airport as an example, one person gives an order that's it, so it's the exact same job whether the city has 500,000 people or 10,000,000, same applies to closing a road or a factory or whatever, you only need a ratio of people to do what needs doing, that ratio doesn't get exponentially bigger it probably gets smaller.
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  4. Somehow the virus has difficulties in crossing the equator in the the Western Pacific region didn't you know that?. That's why it could easily cross the Pacific ocean in an easterly direction to the US and down into South America. However I have a much simpler explanation, the Western Pacific region of WHO decided to have mandatory enforced usually hotel quarantine at the borders and to stop spread internally, worst performing country the Philippines only a bit over 200 deaths per million , check the European WHO region and PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region, both had policies of completely open borders and voluntary quarantine, pretty strong correlation with results.
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  5. There is in general very good adherence to restrictions, of course not everyone but very high. If it wasn't the current variant they would probably not have lockdown with the current case numbers.
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