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yeah but it does own that they actually did a lockdown until there was zero cases. Unlike the UK which did a month long lockdown, which significantly reduced cases, and then went nbd xmas time now :^)
Europe shut the borders and ports to the UK this morning it's gotten so bad here.
Children of Men accelerates
It's gotta be reverse children of men where everyone but the UK survives.
Yea
Just because they have some geographic advantages doesn't mean it was pre-determined to go well
They could have easily fucked around and allowed it to run wild
Most Australian states introduced border controls, including city/regional borders too.
Sure the population is low, but both countries rely on tourism and international students/labour; these countries were prime for massive influxes of covid. It is an achievement that they have not been consumed by the pandemic. Things have gone well in Aus despite our politicians. This is because the public health system and the Department of Health have a lot of power. Essentially everything negative that happened, like opening up too early and being too slow to enforce lockdown was because of the politicians wanting to pretend things are normal. But because the Dept of Health is half decent, they were able to strongarm politicians into enforcing lockdowns, turning private hospitals into testing centers and opening up beds for covid patients, setting up drive through testing centers, equipping rural hospitals with the means to handle covid patients, and even right now would have advised every state to close borders to NSW as swiftly as they did.
Scomo doing the trade war is what happens when he is allowed to do his own thing, which is exactly what you'd expect from a conservative piece of shit. What he has done for covid has very little to do with his own policies, especially since he can't stop complaining about Labor run states.
Is this a bit or are you legitimently mad people are praising 2 countries that stopped a deadly virus from spreading
people are praising 2 countries
The only thing Australians are allowed to be smugly proud of is surviving bites from sea serpents
I mean, Poland is at 30-ish million and we're fucking it up big time
Yeah, but also Poland is wildly incompetent and also a shit country.
Who could've predicted that overworking your employees leads to them making subpar products? Obviously more hours worked makes the line go upper and therefore the life more gooder.
Well, yeah, but it seems like most big studios do crunch at least to some degree.
Yea, no one would care if Australia and New Zealand were gone. But just imagine the celebrations if all us non US folks all woke up tomorrow and there is a new ocean where the USA used to be.
Seriously what is your point here? You are basically jealous that they get to live? Why post this at all?
tbf i'm certainly jealous
but then I remember they're aussies or kiwis and that makes it better
Couple of things:
Firstly, Australia didn't do well with COVID and I've never claimed as such. We locked down slowly and we keep fucking up by opening back too early. Last I checked we keep getting new waves. The only reason we're not as fucked as others is because all our towns and cities are spread out. We kept accidentally letting cruises unload infected passengers without quarantine ffs, we did a shit job.
Secondly, New Zealand is a totally different story to Australia. They locked down quickly and actually enforced social distancing and masks. They aren't perfect, but they did a hell of a lot better than the US and Australia.
Agreed that Scott sucks though. Absolute ghoul.
Continue my California hate this morning but they are like Californians on a global scale. Just never shutting the fuck up about how “they did it right”. Which if they are like Californians they will keep bragging right up until a major outbreak happens again and then it’s going to “super serious business” to help them out.
Anyways I should just log off for the day. It’s one of those mornings
Edit: this is more for New Zealand than the Aussies.
OK but I have family that lives in Australia and from what I heard they actually took much more meaningful measures for the second wave than almost anyone else. They also did some dumb and shitty things but it wasn't a complete disaster like everywhere else.
I mean jacinda ardern's a lib but it's definitely cool that I can actually go outside without having to worry in the slightest about contracting & spreading a deadly disease
For real though Australian Shirazes are some of my favorites. Something about that terroir.
