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Originally Posted by haertig
I think that statement describes every square inch of the planet.
"They were doing good, until they weren't". Yep, that about sums it up.  |
Australia has successfully suppressed every outbreak. The clusters are only caused by quarantine leaks from repatriated travellers, and procedures are being changed and tightened to minimise those leaks. We suppress them with brief lockdowns, border restrictions, widespread testing, masking/distancing, and rapid contact tracing and isolation. In Western Australia we've only spent one week with masking/movement restrictions since about May 2020. We can happily go to weddings, parties, restaurants, bars, concerts etc etc etc. My kid's a musician, and he hasn't been out of work throughout (apart from that week of lockdown). I think we've shown that an elimination strategy is great for the economy.
The worst outbreak was the Melbourne one in mid 2020 (there was a touch of dithering at the start and some superspreadery perfect storm situations with the index cases). The peak number of active cases in that outbreak was about 7000.