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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by celticninja on Monday August 23, 2021 @04:31PM (#28281500)
I have not proposed a lockdown in any of my comments. I think you are looking for an argument with someone who wants another lockdown. I have not seen anyone proposing a new lockdown and think that the majority of people in the UK would neither support another lockdown or even think it is necessary.

Literally the only country that should be considering a lockdown at this stage is New Zealand due to them being a great way to prevent spread if there are very few cases in the general population and the majority of people are unvaccinated. For everyone else the only realistic solution.is vaccination for as much of the population as possible.

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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by CountDrewku on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:17AM (#28314515)
>The only place still with national lockdowns are NZ and Australia because they were able to contain and control the virus earlier on.

You literally supported lockdown measure with this comment. I'm not sure why you're backtracking now.

You might wanna backtrack on the whole AUS NZ thing since they've essentially become authoritarian police states over the COVID cases everyone told them they would get hit with. Turns out it had nothing to do with their measures and everything to do with the fact they're giant islands that can stop anyone coming into their country.

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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by celticninja on Friday August 27, 2021 @04:58AM (#28325657)
Oh I supported lockdown measures when they were first introduced. Because I am not an idiot. But now that we have vaccinations available they are a better option when the virus is so widespread. The UK is also an island and we could have cut ourselves off from travel and kept the virus out bit an incompetent government meant that never happened. So the best solution now is vaccination for as much of the population as possible.

Australia has gone a bit nuts but it's hardly a police state and NZ has fared very well and is very definitely not an authoritarian police state.

Of everywhere NZ has had the best handling of the situation. Of course it had everything to do with their measures, stopping international travel was one of those measures, lockdowns were another.

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