[HN Gopher] Australian Troops Will Help Enforce a Coronavirus Lo...
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Australian Troops Will Help Enforce a Coronavirus Lockdown in
Sydney, July 30
Author : salemh
Score : 24 points
Date : 2021-07-30 17:48 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| mikestew wrote:
| If you're not Australian (and therefore it might not be news), I
| think the lede got buried. 14% fully-vaccinated rate? WTH is
| going on down there? Even the reddest of red states in the U. S.
| are still at 34%.
|
| _" No country has got their pandemic response 100%."_
|
| OTOH, most countries aren't bordering on a single digit
| vaccination rate, either.
| 908B64B197 wrote:
| 14%?
|
| Is that a joke? Argentina and Peru are doing better than
| Australia... What's the excuse now?
| Scoundreller wrote:
| Worse than that, Australia's population post-infection immunity
| is likely the worst in the world too.
|
| It's like a forest that has never done a controlled burn, never
| had a forest fire and it hasn't rained in a very long time.
| ipspam wrote:
| Covid 0! Be happy! Socially distance! Do your part! Flatten
| the curve.
|
| Stay at square 0.
| jpmoral wrote:
| I think it has to be pointed out that the other side of this
| is that there have been very few serious illnesses and deaths
| due to Covid. I'll take that over better post-infection
| societal immunity due to so many having had the disease.
| Unfortunately, the vaccination rollout has been an absolute
| shambles and the NSW government reacted late IMO to the Delta
| outbreak.
| sg47 wrote:
| The joys of a conservative government.
| gtvwill wrote:
| Not sure why you got downvotes but 100 percent Australia's
| slow ass Vax rollout is the result of a "conservative"
| government. Though they are closer to resembling an
| authoritarian corprotocracy rather than anything truly
| conservative or liberal.
| fmakunbound wrote:
| > WTH is going on down there?
|
| Apparently the Morrison government completely bungled the
| vaccine rollout. My elderly parents can't even get a shot and
| it's not for lack of trying.
| mmerlin wrote:
| Also Australian crony capitalism is rife (see the "Game of
| Mates" book).
|
| The selection criteria for choosing AstraZeneca was their
| lobbyist being former Chief of Staff of the Liberal party.
| tinus_hn wrote:
| They were too busy gushing over the success of their zero
| infections strategy, until it failed.
|
| Meanwhile they didn't prioritize vaccinations.
| monkeydreams wrote:
| No. Like in many western nations, it came down to politics.
|
| State governments and the Federal government hold different
| powers. In Australia the exercise of health care is a state-
| level responsibility, hence state-wide health orders leading
| to successful COVID management. The management of
| prescription medicines and their costs is borne by the
| Federal government.
|
| The states that "beat" COVID are currently led by progressive
| parties, while the Federal government is conservative and,
| allegedly, incredibly corrupt.
|
| The Federal government is to blame for the vaccination rate.
| The states that "beat" COVID have generally done so by going
| against the Federal government's advice to 'open up and live
| with it'.
| bellyfullofbac wrote:
| It seems many governments did this, though.
|
| "We've bought some time, what should we do now? Maybe shore
| up our healthcare system in case a wave hits us?"
|
| "No. We... wait.".
| pageandrew wrote:
| I thought Australia beat covid? /s
| newaccount2021 wrote:
| This is crazy...if Australians eat this, they'll eat anything.
| Why stop there? Force "violators" to surrender all their
| belongings and report to a re-education facility. I mean, isn't
| it worth it if a single 400lb 70 year old lives six months
| longer?
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