Originally Posted by
ozbiggles
What are these reasonable precautions you are going to take that guarantees you won’t bring the virus back in the next say 6-12 months?
Has there been some announcement that the vaccine will prevent transmission and knowledge of how long it is effective for?
- wearing a mask in all public places (like pretty much every country outside of Aus/NZ requires)
- sanitising/washing hands frequently
- COVID tests on departure from overseas
- BEING VACCINATED
But if you want a 100% “gold standard” guarantee that no one will bring the virus back, it doesn’t exist.
But if you are seriously saying ZERO cases is the only solution for Australia, that’s completely unrealistic and a massive overreaction to the threat.
IF, the effectiveness of vaccines drives down the rates of hospitalisation and mortality to the point it’s close to a normal influenza outbreak, isn’t that good enough to get back to normal?!!
Current real world data (in Israel and soon to follow USA/UK) shows these vaccines work. Dramatically lower rates of hospitalisation and mortality means the vast majority of people are safe from COVID.
But expecting ZERO cases to be the end goal, is just utterly ridiculous.