Why has Australia switched tack on Covid zero?

Australia has changed its Covid strategy: it's time to leave lockdowns and "come out of the cave", Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said.

The Delta variant upended Australia's playbook. In June, it took hold in Sydney before spreading to Melbourne and Canberra. "This groundhog day has to end, and it will end when we start getting to 70% and 80%," Mr Morrison said last week. "The plan that is proposed is actually very thoughtful and careful," says Prof Ivo Mueller, a population health and immunity expert from the University of Melbourne.

"At 80% double dosage, we anticipate allowing our citizens to access international travel and also to welcoming home Australians through Sydney Airport," Ms Berejiklian said this week. It was only this week that Australia recorded its 1,000th Covid death, the last OECD nation to do so.More than 90% of Australia's cases have occurred around Sydney and Melbourne. But six of Australia's eight states and territories have seen little of the virus at all.

Because they turned the country back into a Prison Colony and people were starting to revolt

More chance of reaching zero Cane Toad!

Bad Flu with a large sustained Government PR campaign. Stop tying yourself up in knots about ' Deadly Viruses ' ( With its own exemption list for VIPS) and just get on with your life...

Because zero Covid was always a mirage & they couldn't accept it.

The human race has overcome so many things including other deadly diseases that we've wiped out but for some reason Covid19 is just too hard so let's all give up. How Pathetic have we become?

Because iron ore prices have slumped. The economy has to rely on internal business rather than renminbi receipts.

Reality had to dawn on the gvt at some point. Life isn't perfect, Some things are difficult to accept. Their zero covid strategy was always going to fail.

Coz it’s impossible

Because lockdown is hurting the economy

Look at Israel, now it is world's worst in daily infections, 1059 per million population. That's why.

Australia better know that what better for it

Because it doesn't work?

Most welcome!

Locked in and can’t leave WA. They want nurses and Drs to come here from UK to work. Don’t do it if you want to say goodbye to your family not knowing when you will ever see them again. Not seen my family for over 2yrs as not allowed to leave. NHS Australia COVID19Aus

Really

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The whole world is copying China's path in tack on covid, admit it or not. The only difference is China succeeded the the West failed. The West doesn't even know what lockdown really means and it call itself lockdown when people hanging around on the street at 9pm. That a joke

If COVID-19 is anywhere, it is potentially everywhere. COVID-19 vaccines will save many lives.

I don’t know, you tell us, you’re the feckin news

This article is a thousands word crap. The mere and only reason Australia 'choose to abandon covid zero' is it failed to contain the virus. As simple as that. It failed to even ease the infection curve after three months lockdown. Does it have a choice? No I don't think so.

Because we had a govt that spent 300B on fiscal stimulus and allocated 1-2% of the above on vaccines. And we are now headed for a recession - the moron level is off the charts.

Cause Gladys gave up

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Tack? Or tact? 🤔

Because Delta makes it an impossibility. Look at NZ now. 80%+ Vaccinated, continued mask wearing and some distancing, and third doses have to be the way forward, at least for now.

Less sugar? Or is that Coke Zero.

Because Australia has no other option? COVID19Aus Covid19NSW

Because our PM is useless?

cowardice and greed. thanks for coming to my ted talk.

Because, much like the UK, with have far-right wing government at the federal level & in the states where COVID has been allowed to run riot, killing people daily.

We took a long time to see the folly of this strategy... Not the smartest bunch here running this country...

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