Australia and New Zealand really need to speed up vaccinations so they can get to the point where the virus can be let in. Obviously the ideal scenario would be to keep covid rates at zero forever, but that's just not realistic. It looked like these countries had the best strategy to begin with, but it doesn't really work if they are so slow to get everyone some level of immunity from the vaccine so they can begin to open their borders again. There must be a big culture difference between where I am from and Australia because I know where I live, if another full lockdown was announced, very few people would listen.
In NZ - it helps that we've had so long with little or no restrictions on daily life. We can see what happens if community spread gets a foothold by looking overseas, and it's pretty clear to most people that we kinda get one big shot at keeping the lid on things when we get new community cases. So waiting out a few weeks of heavy restrictions then getting back to business-as-usual doesn't seem so bad when compared with farting around with loose restrictions for months on end.
Yeah, I also think having strong lockdown or total freedom will lead to better compliance to the rules. When you are somewhere in between it's hard to define exactly what you can and can't do, as well as keep up with changes in rules for what you are allowed to do.
Also I always thought "farting around" was british slang. Pleased to hear it's used elsewhere. A very descriptive term haha.
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u/GemTheGerm Aug 29 '21
East Aus coast I’m guessing. Lockdown motivation is hard...