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I'm not sure I understand what you mean but the Florida 50x metric not standing the test of time?

Even if you were to look at it on a national level, the US death rate per million is 2,142, the Australian death rate per million is... 56. That's a 38x rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rates_...

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Sorry, I wasn't disagreeing with your numbers. I mean that the procedures Australia implemented slowed the virus, but that inevitably Covid will go through the country and there will be a surge. Be it in breakthrough cases like Israel or the unvaccinated.

That's all good, it's why I asked what you meant. I think we've done a fantastic job of flattening the curve here compared to places like the US/UK. As long as we can continue to be on the right side of an ICU tipping point we should continue to ride this out.

How long will you do a great job flattening the curve. If t requires fifty years of this policy because covid is still endemic elsewhere will you be okay with people being born, living and dying under your current regime? If so why? If not why not?

We're expecting the policy to start to be lifted when we reach 80% double vaccination rates, in around 4 to 6 weeks time.

Good luck with surg of covid when that happens.

Australia is a beautiful country but you are not going to be granted an exception to the exact same sequence of events as other countries with high vac rates that opened up.

Hope you actually get your promised freedom.

An vaccines and medications have become significantly more successful. Probably enough to make it not much worse than the flu soon

A surge in cases, but there's unlikely to be the same surge in deaths if Australia's vaccination campaign continues to be successful.

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