What worries me....
ANY recovery will be hamstrung by the political messaging in Australia.
Back in 2017 Australia had a “worse than average” influenza season. Cases peaked at 9000 a week and hundred and hundreds of people died. Yet no one batted an eyelid. Sure the hospital staff probably noticed, but no one else was affected.
Now imagine....
Fast forward to October 2021. Vaccination has reached 80-90% of the Australian population. Most of the rich, mainly western countries around the world have vaccinated a majority of their citizens.
What now?
Australian politicians have shown ZERO appetite for any cases whatsoever. Flattening the curve was turned into elimination (sorry suppression 🤦♂️). So even with high vaccination rates there will always be some cases. Hopefully it will become like a normal winter with influenza, but the political narrative has created a huge fear of even ONE case!!!!
So given this, I imagine it will take months to change the “fear factor” and for the various premiers to stop the daily press briefings. Only then will the media and public attention move on and be able to ignore an ongoing low level of COVID cases.
But I’m not holding my breath...