Quote (Plaguefear @ 28 Nov 2022 03:46)
https://i.imgur.com/ldAEwui.pngAmerica's LEAST populated state is wyoming, with a population of 577,700.
They had 700 more deaths than australia's 24 MILLION people.
Why do american's keep attacking australia for saving thousands of lives?
Australia had several factors going in its favor that most other places, including Florida, did not enjoy:
- being a large island on which the virus can only be introduced via easily controlled gateways like airports or harbors
- the initial virus arrived in Australia quite late, with no widespread community spread by the time other countries had already proven the seriousness of the situation
- a very atomic settlement structure, with all major population centers being separated by hundreds of miles of uninhabitated wilderness; this made
regional containment far more achievable
All these factors allowed Australia to pursue a 'zero covid' strategy which was outright impossible in the U.S. or Europe and skews Australia's death count. And even given all these natural advantages, the Australian covid strategy still lead to months-long, super-strict lockdowns. Australia has low covid deaths because they - unlike other first world nations - had the option to pursue an elimination instead of a mitigation strategy against the virus; and the actual implementation of their strategy still turned out to be a costly failure.
Also, the argument with regard to Florida is not so much that the intial lockdowns were unnecessary (we didn't know yet how infectious and deadly the virus actually is), nor that absolutely no mitigation measures like masks or capacity restrictions were needed between May 2020 and the arrival of vaccines in Spring 2021. No, what Florida actually proves is that further lockdowns, like the ones implemented in New York, California and much of Europe throughout the winter of 2020/21, were unnecessary; and that easing up on mitigation measures like masking and social distancing would have been possible a lot earlier.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Nov 28 2022 05:31am