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Once Australia's COVID-19 hotspot, Victoria goes 28 days without an infection

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I take Being able to walk around rather than be imprisoned anytime.

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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.

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I personally don’t think it should be allowed at any cost to lock down people like the Australian government did. Even one death that resulted from it is a crime.

So who is the criminal and would you like to lock them up?

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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.

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Dying, vs lockdown (because there was no "imprisoned"). 

And you prefer dying.

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.

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My friends and family back home (Melbourne) are very happy.

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I prefer the US approach. Sure a ton of people died, but no one was locked down and imprisoned.

There's no lock down in the US, now look where they are. Meanwhile, Victorians are finally free and rejoicing.

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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.

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justaskingToday  03:06 pm JST

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.

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.

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.

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"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.

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"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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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Good on ya, Vic!

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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.

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