UK Strategy

[Black Orchid]

In 12 days, England will head into "uncharted territory", lifting national coronavirus restrictions despite bracing for up to 100,000 new cases each day in the months ahead.

In Australia, where lockdowns are frequently imposed on single and low double-digit cases, many will find the UK strategy alien and remarkable.

Sydney has just extended a two-week lockdown by at least another seven days, after recording 164 cases in the last week. That's an average of 23 cases each day.

More than 34,000 Aussies remain stranded abroad, unable to come home or visit dying loved ones, because of locked borders and rare-as-hen's-teeth flights which now attract astronomical five-figure prices.

Meanwhile, the UK government is opening up England on July 19, even though its data modelling is predicting daily case numbers could hit 50,000 and even spike to 100,000.

Just over 64 per cent of the UK population has been fully vaccinated, according to latest government figures, compared to Australia's 7.4 per cent, one of the worst rates in the developed world.

What all this means, according to Stephen Duckett, the former secretary of the Department of Health, is that Australia is fighting a new coronavirus war with old COVID-19 weaponry.

https://www.9news.com.au/world/coronavi ... aa3d0f28f7

We're bringing in more than 6,000 per week so why doesn't the number of alleged 'stranded Aussies abroad' never seem to reduce?

[billy the kid]

The UK didnt close their borders until December last year.
December 2020...
Travellers were entering the country in their thousands from
all over the world....
It is now July, 2021 and they are opening up...
Six months it took them to reach this stage.
Six months...
We are still being run by incompetent fools...
Ive run out of adjectives and superlatives and patience....
Look at the mess this country is in....