Re:‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament
by kwhitefoot on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:58AM
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Our, Norway's, economy has already recovered to pre-COVID levels. We have never needed a lock down. We expect to have 95% of the eligible over 18s fully vaccinated before the end of October.
We have never been forbidden from travelling abroad, just advised against, always been able to return. Now that I am fully vaccinated I can return without having to quarantine, without tests, I don't even have to fill in a passenger locator form.
We have never had any violent protests, or violent reactions to protests, about COVID restrictions.
> Australia's doing much better than Norway.
It seems to me that reducing performance to a single dimension is counter productive both literally in GDP terms and qualitatively on a personal level.
Re:‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament
by clouddrover on Thursday August 26, 2021 @07:15AM
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> We have never needed a lock down.
You chose not to. That's why your deaths per population is four times higher than Australia's.
Re:‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament
by tonyarkles on Saturday August 28, 2021 @08:25AM
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And yet, Canada did do lockdowns and is around 4.7x worse than Norway. Plus the gov’t spent $240 billion by Dec 2020; a significant part of which ($80B) was the unemployment program introduced so that people didn’t go broke when they couldn’t work.
The retrospective studies on all of this across different countries is going to be really interesting.
Norway's population is 5,469,887. Australia's population is 25,839,176.
Norway's covid deaths per million is 149. Australia's covid deaths per million is 38.
Australia's doing much better than Norway.