Current Events > Australia down to a single active community case of COVID

(+) Yeah! (+)

50 returned travellers in hotel quarantine are positive with a solitary person in the community positive. Should be COVID free by next week.

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Neat.

Ugh. Thats so Un-freedom of them! Let those people go wherever they want!

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Maybe the dingo ate your baby

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VipaGTS posted...

Ugh. Thats so Un-freedom of them! Let those people go wherever they want!

You can thank the world's longest and most brutal lockdown for this result. But it's summer here now, time for beers at the pub and beach

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Criminal island free of disease cool

I mean, Australia had a less dense population and easier to control travel in and out of the country. Comparing New York City to the Outback is like comparing apples and oranges.

Kudos to you, but definitely your country had an easier route.

If it's one person it's not much of a community

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Bleuets posted...

I mean, Australia had a less dense population and easier to control travel in and out of the country. Comparing New York City to the Outback is like comparing apples and oranges.

Kudos to you, but definitely your country had an easier route.

Nah we tried very hard to keep it limited and contained. We're only just now moving back to normal life. We had outbreaks in our major cities.

Wasn't even that long ago Trump was using Australia as an example of a country that wasn't doing well.

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Darmik posted...

Trump was using Australia as an example of a country that wasn't doing well.

Australia proved trump wrong (only him and those anti-mask folks).
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Bleuets posted...

I mean, Australia had a less dense population and easier to control travel in and out of the country. Comparing New York City to the Outback is like comparing apples and oranges.

Kudos to you, but definitely your country had an easier route.

Ok, compare New York to the goddamn cities, then.

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They should stop the international flights coming in to be honest, too many leaks out of the hotel quarantines

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and then out of nowhere you'll get 5 different cases in a single town and then that turns into 50 overnight

then as they try tracking down those 50 people, it spreads to 300 more

D:

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Its an island in the middle of fucking nowhere with a tiny population spread over massive distances. It would be like us celbrating because Hawaii has low covid rates except its even sillier because Hawaii isn't a country that controls its own borders.

Bleuets posted...

I mean, Australia had a less dense population and easier to control travel in and out of the country. Comparing New York City to the Outback is like comparing apples and oranges.

Kudos to you, but definitely your country had an easier route.

No shit, but 85% of people live on 15% of the land. The density argument, while still true no doubt when you look at places like NYC/LA, is not as different as the pure stats show

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TreyFlowers posted...

No shit, but 85% of people live on 15% of the land. The density argument, while still true no doubt when you look at places like NYC/LA, is not as different as the pure stats show

Is Australia a major tourist or business destination for anywhere on the planet that has high covid numbers? I get it has strong cultural ties to the UK but its on the other side of the fucking planet. In terms of western civilization its the closest thing aside from New Zealand to being on the fucking moon.

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Atralis posted...

Its an island in the middle of fucking nowhere with a tiny population spread over massive distances. It would be like us celbrating because Hawaii has low covid rates except its even sillier because Hawaii isn't a country that controls its own borders.

Hawaii doesn't have a single city that has over a million people living there. The biggest is just over 337k.

Australia has 5 cities with a population higher than a million with the biggest having over 5 million people living there.

Atralis posted...

Is Australia a major tourist or business destination for anywhere on the planet that has high covid numbers?

Yes. We have people arriving with Covid constantly. Every single international traveler has to quarantine for two weeks.

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Why does Google tell me that there were 15 new cases today?

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Jiek_Fafn posted...

Why does Google tell me that there were 15 new cases today?

They'll be people in hotel quarantine who arrived from overseas.

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Jiek_Fafn posted...

Why does Google tell me that there were 15 new cases today?

Hotel quarantine - like I said we still have 50 people arrived in the last 2 weeks who have tested positive and are in hotel quarantine. We're still taking a bunch each day, returned Australians

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That's good news, but like, didn't Australia get down to like either no cases or only a handful of cases earlier this year, before it rose up again?

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LostForest posted...

That's good news, but like, didn't Australia get down to like either no cases or only a handful of cases earlier this year, before it rose up again?

Yeah, our second wave was primarily in one state (Victoria), they were getting 400-600 cases a day in August, had about 7800 active at one point. But the worlds strictest and longest lockdown has seen them just chalk up their 40th day in a row of no new cases

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tote_all posted...

Look at this sheltered clown making an ass of himself.

If you think I'm wrong then post some stats buddy? Australia can turn off international travel like a light switch and have scattered little islands of population in a massive unpopulated continent in an obscure corner of world with relatively low covid infection rates.

Compare that to my home state of Colorado. Our main airport has more passengers than any airport in the country of Australia and we are surrounded on all sides by roads that constitutionally cannot be closed even if we were somehow an island of covid free land. I live in a state with 5 million people in the relative middle of fucking nowhere geographically in terms of the continental US and my airport is busier than any airport in the country of Australia by a wide margin and you are telling me this is some big urban area? Fuck no it is not. I'll reiterate that Australia, geographically, is safer from covid purely by geography than any part of the EU and any part f the continental United States. Its the end of the earth.

tote_all posted...

Lol

Also why did you delete your previous post?

I honestly meant to retype it and didn't realize someone had replyed. If you are actually Australian. Imagine if your country was so heavily populated that Alice Springs had more people flying in and out of it mostly just to travel within it than Sydney currently has total. That is the reality in America in the continental US. We have about the same amount of land as Australia with more than 10 times the population with roads sprawling everywhere and full freedom of movement.

Denver a random city sitting in the middle of America literally has more passengers than Sydney by about 20 million.

Atralis posted...

Compare that to my home state of Colorado. Our main airport has more passengers than any airport in the country of Australia and we are surrounded on all sides by roads that constitutionally cannot be closed even if we were somehow an island of covid free land.

Sounds like your politics is the problem because Australia did lock down borders between states to curb the spread.

Atralis posted...

I honestly meant to retype it and didn't realize someone had replyed. If you are actually Australian. Imagine if your country was so heavily populated that Alice Springs had more people flying in and out of it mostly just to travel within it than Sydney currently has total. That is the reality in America in the continental US. We have about the same amount of land as Australia with more than 10 times the population with roads sprawling everywhere and full freedom of movement.

Denver a random city sitting in the middle of America literally has more passengers than Sydney by about 20 million.

And yet America is doing significantly less than 'safe' Australia anyway.

No one is saying that it's the same amount of difficulty but that doesn't change that America has done fuck all about the pandemic and is continually getting worse. I'm not sure why you're so focused on airports when that's the easiest thing for Governments to control and measure anyway.

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Darmik posted...

Sounds like your politics is the problem because Australia did lock down borders between states to curb the spread.

And yet America is doing significantly less than 'safe' Australia anyway.

No one is saying that it's the same amount of difficulty but that doesn't change that America has done fuck all about the pandemic and is continually getting worse. I'm not sure why you're so focused on airports when that's the easiest thing for Governments to control and measure anyway.

The point I'm making is that if you are comparing Australia or New Zealand to the US or Europe for covid success the plus of being sparsely population islands at the end of the fucking earth is a bigger plus than all over factors. Anyone with a quarter of a brain realizes that. Do you truly believe policy makers in Europe are thinking "well how can we copy Australia". It isn't a fucking option. As much as we love the idea of Australia being covid free no one except morons are looking at it as a model for how to do it.

Atralis posted...

The point I'm making is that if you are comparing Australia or New Zealand to the US or Europe for covid success the plus of being sparsely population islands at the end of the fucking earth is a bigger plus than all over factors. Anyone with a quarter of a brain realizes that. Do you truly believe policy makers in Europe are thinking "well how can we copy Australia". It isn't a fucking option.

The only people who started making comparisons to America were the ones trying to downplay Australia's result compared to their own failures.

And yes people internationally are and should be looking at Melbourne's lockdown. They had one of the strictest and longest lockdowns of anywhere and it has nothing to do with sparse populations.

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