You keep posting half-baked selective info you’ve pulled off of go knows where.
I am very interested for numerous reasons, but let’s park your hesitancy to reveal which orifice you’re pulling some of these articles out of.
I’m interested in Iceland because it’s majorly relevant to Australia - what I don’t get is why you’d ignore the easing of restrictions coinciding with the spike in cases and the reduction I’d deaths with the high level of vaccinations.
There will indeed be other factors at play - what’s different about this strain, what treatment is different, it’s probably many things, but seems intent on pushing a single narrative that the vaccine increases transmission and is not very good - which is highly disputable - because everywhere seems to be recording data that suggests serious problems are being greatly reduced.
What I’m interested in, is the direction in Australia now seems to be pivoting to a race to get to 70-80% vaccinated and ease restrictions - which means the exact same issue that’s facing Iceland and whether our health system could cope.
It’s ripping through NSW at the minute at rates we haven’t seen in Australia since the VIC peak last year - which was largely in aged care.
NSW is seeing 10+ times the cases that VIC is currently seeing, similar lower levels of vaccination but completely different approaches to lockdown and containment.
The worrying thing is that 26% of active cases recorded in VIC today are in children under the age of 10.
Most of the serious cases in NSW appear to be in people not full vaccinated, with age and underlying health conditions - so the push has been hard from the federal and NSW state governments.
So - I’m very interested in finding out what we’re likely to see happening in Australia - because, we’ve seemingly, or should I say the federal govt and NSW govt seemingly have pivoted away from a zero COVID policy to mad dash for the vax in order to open up.
Needless to say it’s the right leaning party that align themselves politically with Trump & Boris and supported by the Murdoch press that have created this shitshow in Australia.