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A comment on Australian military to help enforce Sydney Covid-19 lockdown as cases rise. Parent comment

Re:Australian military to help enforce Sydney Covid-19 lockd... by zarzavat on Thursday July 29, 2021 @10:01AM (#27996642)
Cause and effect is the other way around. UK had one of the strictest lockdowns because UK was extremely unwilling to lock down last autumn.

UK actually had coronavirus under control in summer 2020. Cases started rising again in September after the school holidays but the govt didn't close schools until January 4 months later, by which time the cases had ballooned to gargantuan levels, necessitating a gargantuan lockdown when the shit hit the fan.

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Re:Australian military to help enforce Sydney Covid-19 lockd... by naturalauction on Thursday July 29, 2021 @11:11AM (#27997480)
Also just to note how extremely unwilling the uk government was to lock down, when they closed schools in January they didn’t close them directly after the winter break. Instead they allowed all kids to go to school for one day in January and then decided to lock down when the numbers looked bad on Monday evening after all the kids had already been to school (which obviously caused a lot of spread for that one day).
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