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It's from Slashdot, which tends to be a very left leaning junk tech site.

The US has had very few lockdowns, and the lockdowns there have been have been strictly local affairs.

But yes, it's presumably COVID related, which is frustrating because had we taken the two opportunities available to us (close down for a month early in the pandemic, and keep the borders closed with strict quarantines for those returning from foreign countries until COVID went away), or "Two months of everyone getting mandatory vaccines, with teachers, first responders, nursing staff, and others likely to spread the disease put higher in the queue" which was possible early this year, we wouldn't be in this situation.

Unfortunately we have politicians too chickenshit, and too pandering, or too out of touch, for either to have been done.

I seem to remember someone trying to close the borders for a while when this happened. What was his name again? Got called a xenophobe...

It's from Slashdot, which tends to be a very left leaning junk tech site. >The US has had very few lockdowns, and the lockdowns there have been have been strictly local affairs. >But yes, it's presumably COVID related, which is frustrating because had we taken the two opportunities available to us (close down for a month early in the pandemic, and keep the borders closed with strict quarantines for those returning from foreign countries until COVID went away), or "Two months of everyone getting mandatory vaccines, with teachers, first responders, nursing staff, and others likely to spread the disease put higher in the queue" which was possible early this year, we wouldn't be in this situation. >Unfortunately we have politicians too chickenshit, and too pandering, or too out of touch, for either to have been done. I seem to remember someone trying to close the borders for a while when this happened. What was his name again? Got called a xenophobe...

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Considering that we banned basically everyone from leaving the country or entering the country here in Oz and it's made zero difference, this idiot is off his goddamn rocker. In fact, Oz being a hermit state the last 18 months means that almost nobody has natural immunity in the country, meaning that once the borders are open again it will be much, much worse. It's why Sweden has fuck all when it comes to new cases, they allowed everyone to gain natural immunity and didn't have lockdown shit at all - and now they are fine. It might have been prudent to temporarily close the borders when they had zero fucking clue as to the mortality of it, but if this is a "pandemic" it's the most half-arsed one to exist.