Vax in Iceland and Australia

James Doogue:

Iceland has a vaccination rate of over 90%. Yet they are experiencing a surge in Delta variant Covid-19 cases. Their daily new case rate, if applied to Australia on a pro rata basis, would equate to more than 4,400 new cases per day.

Australia has collectively been averaging fewer than 1,000 new cases per day. But half the country is in hard lock-down. Curfews exist in parts of the country and the media insist it is a crisis!

If I could leave Australia, Iceland would welcome me as a visitor provided I could show I had been vaccinated or previously infected, and have a negative covid-19 test in the last 72 hours.

Iceland doesn't have a lock-down, though there is a 200 person limit at venues and masks must be worn where social distancing, one metre, can't be practiced.

Meanwhile we have state Premiers telling us our lock-downs and hard internal borders will still apply after we reach 80% vaccination rates.

We let the entire country go into lockdown in March 2020, allegedly to flatten the curve and stop our health services from being overwhelmed. But our political leaders had no roadmap of metrics for stopping lock-downs. That was the day we signalled to our political leaders they could take away our freedoms without accountability

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