Originally Posted by SOPS
Why are the British making it so hard.? You are an island. Do what we have done in Australia. Close the borders. No one can leave.. full stop. Well if your not Australian you can. Anyone that arrives from anywhere .. and you basically have to be an Australian citizen to do that.. goes into quarantine for 14 days.. in a hotel. Except for the Victoria it’s worked really well .. out total deaths are around 106. It’s not hard when you are an island.
UK is very different from Oz SOPS as well you know. It's a geographic crossroads with a population of 65,000,000 in a landmass the size of Victoria! To quarantine the UK would be totally pointless as once the virus is in it just spreads like mad (current estimates are that over a sixth of the UK population have actually had the virus now; showing how low the actual mortality is). Australia is of course at the bottom of the world and except for NZ would be a Cul-de-Sac, and with a far less dense population control is a different exercise. As for Comrade Dan's efforts to eradicate rather than contain? Kind of missing the point isn't he? There's a good chance that we'll have to learn to live with this virus; I do feel that Oz and NZ are going to be somewhat left behind!