Americans are fucking weird.
Australia closed its national borders and recalled its citizens from overseas four weeks ago. A number of state borders are also closed. There are less than 7000 confirmed cases and 71 deaths nationwide in Australia, so one hopes that it's been handled competently.
And then there's America, which has thousands of corpses lying about the place and tens of thousands of desperately ill paitents in makeshift field hospitals, people who are actually protesting quarantine measures in huge groups and saying, despite the disconcertingly large piles of corpses, that things aren't that bad. What the fuck, America? What the fuck?
NYC isn't all of America. That's the only state that's had those issues and that's down to outright incompetence.
Australia also isn't America. We have 25m, spread out over the size of roughly the US, vs the US' 328m.
I've seen a lot of Australians gloating, swallowing that government bullshit hook, line and sinker, like they've done such a great job and they're so noble and good for doing "what they should" to reduce numbers.
No. The numbers are proportionate to the conditions. New Zealand's lockdowns did exactly fuck all btw. Their rates per capita are awful. We're on the same par as countries that didn't lock down.
NYC had those hotboxes of disease, the subway, running at lower capacity with the same amount of people.
NYC also has a disproportionate amount of hospital beds for its population. New York is a mismanaged shit hole.
NY had a field hospital they didn't even need to use. Their morgues run at almost 100% during normal times, let alone when there's a small peak.
Oh and those field hospitals?
ACT was busy erecting one of those at the start of the month.
For what you may ask, since we, in our wisdom, closed private hospitals to make 7500 ICU beds available, whilst we've only needed 80 at the peak.
Construction is expected to cost A$23 million and be completed sometime in May 2020
Well, I'm sure that will be fucking useful!
Australia has indulged in autistic lockdowns, lied to its citizens continuously (First "flatten the curve" then when that's flat as fuck "Oh... were SORTA flattening it" to "What curve?") and destroyed the economy for 0.0002% of the population death toll or a 0.027% infection rate.
Woohoo! Millions of unemployed and a $2b debt is sure worth it!
Conversely, studies coming out of just about every other sane nation is finding that Coronavirus isn't nearly as deadly as we were told, the modelling was as useful as tits on a bull and oh, would you look at that? It rips through the population at the same rate no matter if you smugly lockdown or not.
But don't worry! Australia's airtight plan of waiting for a vaccine will surely pan out. What's that? It's likely there is not going to be a vaccine or it will take 5-10 years to make? Meanwhile, China is going to buy Virgin Airlines, the airline you just gave $200mil to?
We have no right criticising those dumb Amerifats. We just need to admit we're too busy being virtuous and smug to realise we were played like a fiddle by those wily chinks.
