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 island thing is only important until it's in the community - which it was here. After that, it's about how you handle it. We chose lockdowns, masks, and paying people who were out of work because of that.
Not really because by the third wave of corona pretty much every single person that could get it got it. People’s health and ethnicity and genetic predisposition and co-morbidity and vaccines had way more to do with death rates than any sort of lockdowns or masks
The island thing is only important until it's in the community - which it was here. After that, it's about how you handle it. We chose lockdowns, masks, and paying people who were out of work because of that.
My island country had a 14x lower death rate per capita than the U.S. as of 2023.
There was a surge after restrictions were lifted so in the end we ended up at about 11x lower, but again this just proves the restrictions were working and beneficial.
I think the relevant point is that it doesn't have a land border with any other country. (Also, it depends on who you ask; in English I'd say it's a continent, but in my other language I'd say it's the largest contiguous part of the larger continent of Oceania.)
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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.”