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Trunkage

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There are very few places on the planet where there is even the tiniest chance that works. You have to start holing up before there's significant community spread, and most places can't actually lock down international travel, and most places have animal populations that act as carriers for sars-cov-ii. If you are lucky enough that the problem can just go away in a few weeks, that's luck of the draw, you haven't conquered pandemics, I promise.

But also, the problem didn't actually go away, it just took slightly longer to get there, you still all got exposed to covid just like the rest of the world did. Once it was spreading significantly, Australian cities attempted months long lockdowns like the rest of the world had tried, and it failed exactly the same, and then they just let it run its course in 2022.
An Australian city did that. Australia is not Melbourne

Over the two years, my city was locked down for 7 weeks. Most major cities were like that

But you are right. A proper lockdown required a government who was willing to do the right thing and a population who was willing to put up with short term pain for long term results

America is not that country.
 

tstorm823

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An Australian city did that. Australia is not Melbourne

Over the two years, my city was locked down for 7 weeks. Most major cities were like that

But you are right. A proper lockdown required a government who was willing to do the right thing and a population who was willing to put up with short term pain for long term results

America is not that country.
You still all got COVID though.
 

Ag3ma

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Honestly, they need it.
He's not going to fix Argentina. He's just another populist, right-wing arsehole who said a lot of stuff on the campaign trail he's not actually going to do, and will probably rig the system and suppress political dissent to try to keep himself in office.
 

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When we were ready and it wasn't going to destroy a) millions of people b) the economy

Edit: A lockdown never meant to stop Covid from happening

Wherever you got that nonsense from, perhaps stop listening to them
"Once the problem is gone, lock down the border and you're pretty much good as gold."

Sound familiar? I know you want to take pride in your home, but some things are just chance or circumstance. Imagining you solved what the rest of the word couldn't manage is a bit silly.