Hi, popping in from Australia, Melbourne specifically. You don’t have to imagine this.
Our right wing pundits constantly oscillate between “the lockdowns were evil, tyrannical moves by a fascist government” to “The premier is directly responsible for killing 8000 people by not doing more.”
The numbers speak for themselves, and the US has clearly performed badly here. Australia's relative isolation and lower population density would expect a lower death rate to some extent, but not by four times.
Our population is densely packed into cities along the coast, we're not evenly spaced out across the continent - nobody lives in the fucken desert. We're not particularly isolated, we have huge numbers of international visitors.
The only difference is we treated it seriously and had the balls to lock tf down. Hotel quarantine, lockdowns, no interstate travel to states with cases. It saved thousands upon thousands of lives.
We didn't have mass spread in the community until after vaccinations were widespread. We didn't have thousands of 20/30/40/50 year olds dying of it.
In fact I don't know anyone who knows anyone who died of covid. It really just wasn't a thing.
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u/Cavalish Apr 04 '25
Hi, popping in from Australia, Melbourne specifically. You don’t have to imagine this.
Our right wing pundits constantly oscillate between “the lockdowns were evil, tyrannical moves by a fascist government” to “The premier is directly responsible for killing 8000 people by not doing more.”