Prince Chrom
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Or WA, which locked down every time and we're basically COVID free.Gotta say, when all of this regularly comes up, I enjoy just pointing at Australia. Where we've bravely volunteered to accidentally do a great study to show how well lockdowns work. Since you can just very easily compare New South Wales and Queensland, where NSW delayed going into a hard lockdown, and has increased up to almost 500 new cases a day, and has basically spent most of the past 2 weeks in a pseudo-lockdown which has consistently failed. On the other hand, in QLD they went into a hard lockdown for about a week after having a single cases detected, and during that week it spiked at something like and entire 15 new cases during a single day, thanks to the fact that every single family that was connected to that initial case stayed at home for 2 weeks, whilst the state paid for groceries to be sent to them to help them safely stay at home.
So that really nicely shows how powerful having a state/federal government that actually bites the bullet and goes into a fast lockdown can prevent cases from spiraling out of control, and also that by supporting those that are forced into lockdown you can actually encourage them to follow those rules and not fuck it up for everyone else.