COVID-19: Australia vs the rest of the world

All Arab/Middle Eastern countries seem to be under reporting deaths. Even if you adjust for age, they seem too low. Likely like Russia, where only deaths are counted where Covid was the only cause of death, but not where it was one of the factors.

 

In Russia they are doing very little testing ... and don't perform autopsies (unless you're rich) ... so, unless you'd been tested, and confirmed positive, they don't consider you died of covid

 

or a vodka related death

 

Well , the vic thing is very disheartening no doubt about it and huge numbers for us , yeah.
But look at it this way , Canada 39m not even double us over 100k cases. ltaly 60m,not even 3x us 270,000 and still getting 12k a day , Sweden 9m less than half us 78kcases , so just a few of the top of my head. But as bad as vic is really for us, Aust is still nothing compared , just prayin it comes down soon none the less.

 

This is interesting South Korea‘s success due to its acceptance of Surveillance
We could never do this here

surveilanceCoronavirus: South Korea’s success in controlling disease is due to its acceptance of surveillance

Hong Kong used electronic wrist bands

Our app failed

 

The big difference between this war and others is that the rebuilding is only economic not a physical rebuilding of facilities, infrastructure etc.

All economies will require rebuilding or investment, spending & stimulus.

 

The virus will go undetected and more outbreaks will occur globally.

we think we have in under control but reality its impossible without a vaccine

The full picture: What Australia's true rate of COVID-19 could be

 

as I previously mentioned, seems like we are the poster boy/girl for countries that went hard early and have suffered greatly in the second wave
I feel like the aus government werent perfect but did the best they could in the circumstnaces,

that being said, I wonder how other countreis would have fared if their second wave was like ours, especially some asian countries, I can only assume it would be catastrophic

 

If Australia wasn't an Island and had the same population to land mass as some of the more populated Asian countries, I believe our whole country would be in a state of mass disaster. We have applied the most basic fundamentals only in comparison to Asian countries like Taiwan, Singapore, Korea ect.

 

I know the basics of what taiwan and singapore did, Not sure about korea, but I think we all moved in similar ways

 

Technology, they are miles in front of where we are with it.

 

Ha they already have been for yrs and it'll get worse and worse , but Korea style , no thanks.

 

Are you watching the policing in Melb.... no we will never go down this road

 

**** l mean will they have any money left to do it after all this?

 

Nope , l'm avoiding most things rona atm , had enough of it.

 

Ya, l worry about that too. lf it can happen in Vic , Spain , not sure what others , it can happen anywhere . There is that UK vac hopefully out in Sep , haven't heard anything new on that since the announcement but quietly hoping all will go ahead. Must be others pretty close too by now.

 

Government money is basically endless, especially if the battle is worth the fight.

And this one is IMHO. What other option is there?

It took Britain 55 years to pay off its WW2 debt. I would guess that most British folk would agree the fight was worth the debt.

That is why people, especially younger ones, need to take this thing seriously.

Otherwise they will be 70 to 85 years old by the time Australia pays off this debt, if we aren’t careful.

 

Maybe. However, as you probably know, what works in a petri dish doesn't work on mice let alone people. Probably 95%+ of scientific research results in a dead end but that's the nature of always trying to resolve the issue involving "I don't know."

 

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