No new locally-acquired coronavirus cases in Australia yesterday

Re:No new locally-acquired coronavirus cases in Australia ye... by Devils-Avocado on Sunday November 01, 2020 @04:33PM (#24962696)

Australia will be the slowest to go back to normal since they will need to maintain national quarantine forever - until a suitable vaccine is found and administered.

$25,000 per person is a huge amount of money, far greater than for any national scheme, ever. Probably approaching Australia's expenditure for a world war or major international conflict.

Keep in mind that currently in Europe - there is very limited excess mortality. For example in Belgium right now, there are less excess deaths than from a heatwave in August:

https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/#z-scores-by-country

Sweden and other non-lockdown countries are already back to normal. The only thing preventing normality is politicians who insist on lockdowns for a virus which is currently not causing excess deaths beyond what we would expect from regular influenza.

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Re:No new locally-acquired coronavirus cases in Australia ye... by doubleunplussed on Sunday November 01, 2020 @04:42PM (#24962764)

The fear is the trend, not the numbers so far. Belgium's healthcare system is at breaking point, and the death rate is doubling maybe every 10 days:

https://chrisbillington.net/COVID/Belgium.svg

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Re:No new locally-acquired coronavirus cases in Australia ye... by 0xfaded on Monday November 02, 2020 @02:18AM (#24965465)

Well, my parents live in Perth. They've been living a normal existence since May.

Monetarily, it's no different than any other medical expenditure. Would you spend 25k for an extra year of normal life? What about if you're 20-30?

Colour me jealous.

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Re:No new locally-acquired coronavirus cases in Australia ye... by Devils-Avocado on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:58AM (#24966678)

In Sweden 0.06% of the population has died from COVID, and those that did have a median age of about 80.

Would you pay $25,000 in order to have a 1 in 1,666 chance of living an extra few months when you are 80 years old?

No one would take those odds - but it has been forced on the population.

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Re:No new locally-acquired coronavirus cases in Australia ye... by 0xfaded on Monday November 02, 2020 @10:43AM (#24969292)

I'm not talking about dying, I'm talking about normal life.

I live in Denmark, with arguably more restrictions than Sweden. I'd happily sacrifice 25k in future lifetime earnings to have 2020 back. (BTW, as a startup founder, the possible costs of COVID may wind up being far more disastrous to my lifetime earnings)

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