https://videos.elmundo.es/v/0_djmhws8v-la-policia-baja-a-bus...
https://www.levante-emv.com/safor/2020/04/13/helicoptero-pol...
Fascinating how natural it comes to us: “my experience must be everyone’s experience.”
I live in Paris, and at the height of "stay at home" mandates, it was a ghost town. I had an actual reason to get out a few times, and let me tell you there were less people outside in broad daylight than there currently is in the middle of the night, which was really eerie.
There was enforcement too, since the police had pretty much nothing else to do there during the full mandates (not the latter weaker ones).
W.Australia's COVID-19 vaccine roll-out began 22 February 2021.
The state remained isolated from 24th March 2020 until 3rd March 2022, by which time essentially every person in the state had been double vaccinated.
For the most part people continued life as before, now and again the capital city would have portions "locked down" when there was an active case in order to contain spread and test potential carriers.
The first active case was the 21st February 2020, contained. The first COVID death was 1st Mar 2020. Active case numbers stayed low until There was no real increase in active cases until February 2022. There was no significant increase in deaths due to COVID until March 2022.
"Shelter in state until vaccinations rolled out" for a state that was already largely independant and isolated worked just fine - the deaths started once the borders opened, but at rates greatly below those seen elsewhere in the world thanks to a vaccination buffering.
W.Australian cases Jan 2020 - now: https://covidlive.com.au/report/daily-cases/wa#2020
W.Australian deaths Jan 2020 - now: https://covidlive.com.au/report/daily-deaths/wa#2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Western_A...
It is an extremely rare situation though, and would not have been possible if it were not the most isolated capital city in the world.
"Using an event study approach and data from 43 countries and all U.S. states, we measure changes in excess deaths following the implementation of COVID-19 shelter-in-place (SIP) policies. We do not find that countries or U.S. states that implemented SIP policies earlier had lower excess deaths. We do not observe differences in excess deaths before and after the implementation of SIP policies, even when accounting for pre-SIP COVID-19 death rates."