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Originally Posted by cs123
That’s what the original plan was. Flatten the curve so the hospitals could keep things under control. The problem was managing that curve as the virus was so infectious.
But eventually that is what will happen. Vaccinations and infections should get us to herd immunity. The big question for me is the rate at which we are vaccinating. We are at risk of being left behind globally as other nations open up sooner. We won’t be ready.
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I'm not as confident as I was say 6 months ago. You look at India, Europe, Latin America and it feels like that it will rage on for years with poor vaccine supplies, annual vaccination requirements, continued lack of border controls outside the Asia Pacific and strain mutations. WHO release states that the pandemic is accelerating globally, with as many infections in the last month as the first six months of the outbreak.
I don't reckon being immunised in Australia is going to magically fix the rest of the world and take us back to where we were. The Fed will maintain iron control of the international borders for a while yet.