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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
BetterRed: With an island, you probably could get away with skipping the vaccine altogether. Unless your country ever wants tourism again .....
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Australia hasn't just been lucky that the virus decided to stay away because our borders are sea not land. Intervention has been comprehensive and community-wide at every level of government and organisation: lockdowns and mask mandates where/when required, distancing, other restrictions, managed quarantine, contact tracing, QR code check-in, accessible free testing, etc etc etc; and it has all carried very significant costs - not just the end of international tourism for the foreseeable future (except perhaps NZ), but the costs of the restriction of movement of workers and students and so on. (International students are a huge chunk of our education economy.) We normally have a very active border, and it was all but closed.
Nothing to do with being an island. Just (largely) good management and community participation.