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© Thomson Reuters 2020.Once Australia's COVID-19 hotspot, Victoria goes 28 days without an infection
By Colin Packham SYDNEY©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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carpslidy
I take Being able to walk around rather than be imprisoned anytime.
Strangerland
I'd go through a lockdown like Victoria did if it meant my area would have the virus temporarily eradicated. Being able to walk around without worry during the/a pandemic is worth it to me.
Bob Fosse
So who is the criminal and would you like to lock them up?
carpslidy
Simian LaneToday 05:02 pm JST
I agree, if this was 250,00 dead children lock everything down, but it's not.
Life evolves risk, it's ironic the same generation that lost over a million fighting for freedom were being locked in their homes by their grandchildren's generation supposedly for their good.
cleo
Assuming that Simian Lane is not posting posthumously from A Better Place, he/she/it presumably means other people dying is preferable to Simian Lane being in lockdown.
blvtzpk
My friends and family back home (Melbourne) are very happy.
justasking
There's no lock down in the US, now look where they are. Meanwhile, Victorians are finally free and rejoicing.
Tobia
Simian Lane 'I prefer the US approach. Sure a ton of people died, but no one was locked down and imprisoned'
You seem to compare Covid deaths as numbers and not as human lives. Every single death is a tragedy which touches all their loved ones and causes grief and sadness. These people die ALONE in hospitals with no one by their side and buried without a proper funeral. Just look at the number of Covid deaths in the US. Lockdowns save lives. Follow the science and not fake news.
kyronstavic
That's not the point, and you're not comparing apples and apples. Incompetence and hubris ran rampant in the Victorian government whereas other states managed the situation far better. The numbers speak for themselves.
Christopher Glen
"Unlike one country I know with 250,000 deaths"
Many with underlying health conditions and co-morbidities. And of course there is a difference between dying of, and with, the virus.
Christopher Glen
"Act Early, Fast and Hard and thereafter economic life will return
to normal as people go about their daily life and not suspecting the
person nearby might be infected."
You seem very optimistic. That's no consolation to the lives destroyed by the excessive measures implemented - against something that is little worse than a flu.
justasking
At least they fixed it. Unlike one country I know with 250,000 deaths and still acts like COVID19 is a political issue and wearing masks is a violation of their human right.
kyronstavic
That's good news, without a doubt.
But bear in mind that Victoria had the vast majority of deaths (more than 800 out of 907 to date) and a large slice of the cases, even though Andrews introduced the toughest restrictions in the country., and lied his way through a bungle that claimed his health minister and one senior bureaucrat, with another quitting in disgust over the debacle.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/australia/
NSW, with a larger population and much softer restrictions, lost 53 people to the virus.
Mickelicious
Good on ya, Vic!
drlucifer
Yes, the way to go with containing the virus
Act Early, Fast and Hard and thereafter economic life will return
to normal as people go about their daily life and not suspecting the
person nearby might be infected.