Quote:
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 .....
|
The borders are closed both ways so the loss of revenue from inbound tourism has been partly offset by us not being allowed to spend our money as foreign tourists elsewhere. So we spend it on our national sport - buying and selling houses
As for being an island - so is Hawaii, and so more or less is Alaska. The UK couldn't even keep the Falklands Covid free, nor the French their Pacific territories - unlike nearby Fiji and Vanuatu.
It is sometimes said of Vienna: "There's an economist on every corner."
I sometimes think the same could be said of epidemiologists in Australia. A fresh one seems to pop up everyday - which is no bad thing. Although some seem to believe all risks could be eradicated if the federal government took control of everything. Truth is our federal agencies wouldn't even have the capacity to
operate a game of
two-up on Anzac Day (topical). They could fund and regulate it, they're good at that - but operate it - nuh.
In the UK and elsewhere the hospital clinicians are regarded as heroes. In Australia it's the state public health teams, i.e. contact tracers (aka disease detectives), the nurses who take the swabs in quarantine, the people who work at the borders, the people who transport people who are covid-19 positive etc.
BR