Posted on 05/15/2022 7:59:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
MELBOURNE, Australia — If the United States had the same COVID death rate as Australia, about 900,000 lives would have been saved. The Texas grandmother who made the perfect pumpkin pie might still be baking. The Red Sox-loving husband who ran marathons before COVID might still be cheering at Fenway Park.
For many Americans, imagining what might have been will be painful. But especially now, at the milestone of 1 million deaths in the United States, the nations that did a better job of keeping people alive show what Americans could have done differently and what might still need to change.
Many places provide insight: Japan, Kenya, Norway. But Australia offers perhaps the sharpest comparisons with the American experience. Both countries are English-speaking democracies with similar demographic profiles. In Australia and in the United States, the median age is 38. Roughly 86% of Australians live in urban areas, compared with 83% of Americans.
Yet Australia’s COVID death rate sits at one-tenth of America’s, putting the nation of 25 million people (with around 7,500 deaths) near the top of global rankings in the protection of life.
Australia’s location in the distant Pacific is often cited as the cause for its relative COVID success. That, however, does not fully explain the difference in outcomes between the two countries, since Australia has long been, like the United States, highly connected to the world through trade, tourism and immigration. In 2019, 9.5 million international tourists came to Australia.
So what went right in Australia and wrong in the United States?
For the standard slideshow presentation, it looks obvious: Australia restricted travel and personal interaction until vaccinations were widely available, then maximized vaccine uptake, prioritizing people who were most vulnerable before gradually opening up the country again.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...
What a crock of ####. The leftists in the MSM want to glorify Autralian covid concentration camps because that’s what they want for Trump supporters.
I kind of doubt it because there is no way of knowing whether or not the death toll in Australia would have been any higher without the draconian infringments of rights. This article’s praise of boot-on-your face government is obscene.
Probably about 300,000 died from Covid. The rest were other conditions ascribed to Covid.
And if My aunt had balls she’d be my uncle.
CC
Imagine actually believing 1 million people died from Covid. And yet people I once respected believe it, hook line and sinker. This nation is completely lost.
Folks, I know that you are skeptics of this article, but I wish you’d at least tell us your reasons for disbelieving what it says instead of simply saying: “I don’t believe it.” ( or in similar words ).
Perhaps those 200,000+ deaths among long term care facility patients and staff made a difference. In New York, that could win an award.
https://ltccovid.org/questions/2-02/
As of 18th March 2022, there have been 20,154 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among subsidized residents in aged care facilities. There have been 1,879 deaths so far.
I'm sure that the Aussies didn't stick COVID patients in nursing hoes where the most vulnerable live. they probably didn't count suicides and deaths from automotive accidents as COVID related, either. I'm sure that skewed their numbers down, as well.
Both of those are commi newspapers. Let’s celebrate China and Austrlia that had authoritarian lockdowns.
How about the 30 other countries that did better than Australia and didn’t throw their citizens into camps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rates_by_country
Maybe Australia didn’t count non covid deaths as covid cases like we did. No mention of Sweden? Last I heard they didn’t have any more deaths than countries that lockdown, of course that doesn’t fit their narrative, so let’s not mention it.
One reason people do not believe these kinds of stories is that the CDC has gotten caught or acknowledged that their COVID case numbers and death numbers have been wrong for various reasons, and have been adjusted downward. One story involved some kind of data input error by the CDC. These stories have been posted to FR.
Odds are that the Australian health system kept more honest numbers, while the US federal government was paying out hospitals who would write off people with broken legs as covid patients.
B.S.
NZ with 5 Mil pop and 85% jabbed and constant lockdowns has had over 1 Mil cases Aussie should have had a lot more ...
Author didn’t mention population density at all, and that sure seems relevant. 3 people per square kilometer in Australia, 36 per sq km in the U.S.
“End justifies the means” article
Wait,,,,
What?
Whats that 180 next to New Zealand
NZ has had 1 Mil cases thousands dead and constant lockdowns ...
Australia is isolated in the middle of the pacific. They had no international flights for two years. That was not possible in USA. Stupid article.
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