Karma Police wrote:
I am Sam wrote:
They could also interview the 99.xx % of people who do not think its a prison, are glad to still be working normally, even more in my case, in a country that is leading the world economically post Covid, lower unemployment than before Covid....yeah, I'm sure those people would rather want to travel than have a job hey?--- freedom to not get infected and the knowledge of where the infections are so that our lockdowns actually require minimal change to lifestyle, and quickly douses the outbreak.
Have a look here at what keeping things under control gives you, unlike USA and most of world where they may as well not lockdown, because its out of control anyway, and makes comparisons with us meaningless.
https://twitter.com/dbRaevn/status/1411184129480171523/photo/1Top right hand corner is the origin- USA air crew and driver S1.
It is colour coded for dates, and broken down into 'those already isolating during infectious period, or not'.
Today we are down to 16 new, 13 aqlready in isolation, 1 for some part of infectious time, and 2 that were not at all.
Where else and how else can you manage this better.
Your criticism of Australia seems to stem from some envy over our situation vs yours. You, Trump, state governors etc, hopelessly failed. Once it was out of control your lockdowns meant nothing, yet your economy and lifestyle is more affected, more reluctance and possibility of infection etc.
Hence your continued comparisons are ignorant.
"You gotta love this city"
There are lockdowns, and there are lockdowns. I am currently at work as usual. We are supposed to work from home if possible, but I needed to come into the office today, no issue from anyone.
On the weekend, nice winter weather. I walked all around my area with my dog. TYhousands out at parts, athletics tracks beached exercising. Just can't sit in a park or on the beach.
Popped up to the supermarket to shop as usual, except wearing a mask. Restaurants and pubs are shut, but you can still buy takeaway, and many make a point of doing so during a lockdown to support their local businesses.
My gym is shut. That is the biggest killer for me and hard for my cons to do decent quality gym sessions, though as I said tracks are open (not ones you pay for though).
So this is lockdown. The only restrictions that really affect people are:
- gyms, pubs and restaurants being shut (exercise outdoor and buy takeaway),
- hair/beauty places
- clothes shops shut (buy online)
- can't go to each others' places - so you catch up for a walk instead
The local coffee shop and most bottle shops do really well out of COVID lockdowns.
Numbers up a little today, looking unlikely we will come out of lockdown Friday after our 2 weeks.
The good thing is this lockdown has shaken a lot of people out of their COVID complacency and vaccination numbers are rising, though we still have to wait another month or two to get a bunch more Pfizer vaccines into the country. Europe blockaded them for a while. The isolation that helped keep infections down has hurt supply of the vaccines.
Bit you doing so much worse than the country where some people value "freedom" above human life - aren't you?