Re:Australia’s capital city to enforce snap lockdown after o...
by explodingman on Thursday August 12, 2021 @09:09PM
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> the question is how long can this strategy go on for.
Australia's strategy involves relaxing/reducing lockdowns when vaccination rates reach 70% and again at 80%. These levels are less ambitious than they seem because they don't count the 20% of the population under 16 years old.
Other thresholds are:
* when vaccines become available to anyone, which should be the case by December (Australia's vaccine roll out has been excruciatingly slow)
* the national budget anticipates opening up in the middle of 2022
My expectation is that the country will spend the first half of 2022 screaming and arm-twisting at the vaccine hesitant to get jabbed, and will then open up anyway on June 30.
Australia's strategy involves relaxing/reducing lockdowns when vaccination rates reach 70% and again at 80%. These levels are less ambitious than they seem because they don't count the 20% of the population under 16 years old.
Other thresholds are:
* when vaccines become available to anyone, which should be the case by December (Australia's vaccine roll out has been excruciatingly slow)
* the national budget anticipates opening up in the middle of 2022
My expectation is that the country will spend the first half of 2022 screaming and arm-twisting at the vaccine hesitant to get jabbed, and will then open up anyway on June 30.