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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 AndrewBissell on Thursday July 29, 2021 @10:39AM (#27997083)
> For those outside of Australia, we are are currently in the early stages of vaccine roll out, 14.1% fully vaccinated. Consequently we are still using the blunt instruments of lockdown to solve our problems.

Presumably that 14.1% represents the vast majority of people who were at serious risk of severe illness or death from Covid. If the vaccines are effective against preventing serious hospitalizations and deaths, then this should have eliminated the possibility of the hospitals becoming overcrowded and stressed. The original justification for lockdowns was to prevent that from happening. What's the justification now?

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Re:Australian military to help enforce Sydney Covid-19 lockd... by morsch on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:49PM (#27999269)
Around 15% are aged 65+, and it's possible that the hospitalisation rate for younger people is high enough that it'll still crash the system. I don't know. It starts ramping up at around 40.
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