Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "COVID-19: Statistics trigger policy decisions | COVID-19 Special" video.

I don't know why everyone carry on about North Korea, if any country can do a lockdown it's North Korea and they sent a very blunt message early on by shooting a South Korean public servant that had strayed over the border as a potential covid 19 carrier and burnt the body. Show the public that message and you get very good compliance. In my state of Queensland Australia we introduced potential prison terms for major offenders of health orders and we have imprisoned a few people I believe, we have a high compliance rate and only 7 deaths for a population of 5 million, so the lowest deaths per Capita of any major jurisdiction outside of most of the provinces in China.
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Well Australia had a few hundred less deaths for 2020 so a negative excess deaths number, a big contributor was less respiratory deaths because the restrictions dramatically reduced flu deaths. New Zealand would be similar. Lockdowns do cause deaths so there was about 1400 excess deaths from memory during the initial lockdown in Australia and the graph demonstrated that these deaths occured during March April 2020. So excess deaths number won't only be from covid 19 and the longer the lockdowns the more other excess deaths. So hard lockdown countries like Australia and China the lockdowns on average are shorter and everything open up again, this is becoming much more difficult with Delta variant, Sydney Australia is at a point where they might lose control, look at cases graph in Vietnam and you will see how bad the Delta variant is. Taiwan had the Alpha variant which isn't so bad and looks like they have regained control. Delta variant is estimated to be 60% more contagious than Alpha variant.
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@SabinJBB The lockdowns don't necessarily cause suicides and even if they did it wouldn't be significant in the overall numbers of deaths, I don't know why but people with diabetes and some types of heart problems the deaths increase during lockdown. I know it was found that in rural areas of Hubei province in China that there was a significant increase in suicides during their lockdown but they didn't supply the actual numbers (China controls information a lot but they did use the words significant increase). In the US there was anecdotal evidence of suicide increases but but I haven't seen the actual numbers maybe they are out by now and also very compelling evidence based on 35 city jurisdictions of increased homicides, maybe the full data for both is out now, I don't know. The excess deaths according to the US CDC from January 26 to October 3 was 300,000 for the US with only 200,000 attributed to covid 19, so the long partial Lockdowns caused a significant amount of deaths. That's why I suggest the intensity of a lockdown makes little difference , it's more about the duration and I would speculate that ongoing lockdown lite that seems to have no end if you are going through it is more damaging to mental health than short hard lockdowns and then opening fully most of the time.
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