But how many deaths would we have had if nothing had been done. That’s the big question. Nobody really knows the answer.
And we count the deaths pretty much the same way.
You aren’t stopping Covid. You are postponing it. Covid is a weaponized virus. It will get to everyone. I am immunized, I practice social distancing and I contracted Delta. It’s that contagious.
Remember, the Delta variant hit here in June. Warm weather made it worse. Covid is not causing the lockdowns. The government is doing that.
When I was at Woomera I worked hand-in-hand with the RAA and RAAF. In fact, my rating officer was RAAF. WE only had one RAN but I didn’t work with him. Great guy, though!
The skill, professionalism and attitude of the typical Australian soldier/sailor/airman has my endearing respect. And they’re great friends and some of the funnest people I’ve ever met.
Salutes to you, mate!
I will say this. I don’t think COVID is ever going away. Not in Oz, not in the USA.
I do believe it will get less deadly as medical science figures out ways to treat it, as long as politics doesn’t get the way. Even so, eventually, positive treatments will prevail, even if it’s a totally new class of drugs or horse paste.
If Australians are trying to get to that point—where positive treatment “cures” the infection so few will die—then that is good.
If however, this disease is going to swing from one variant to another and still kill people, and no effective cure is found, then no amount of quarantine or lockdown will have an effect UNLESS that lockdown is permanent, which would be absurd, no?