Originally Posted by
PoppaJo
Not sure how she will spin her words as she does when we start cracking the 0000s. You can’t have 2/3000 cases a day and keep spinning the same bull**** as she does for the next 2 months. Those are resignation numbers.
I sound like a Gladys apologist, but what will her pulling the pin achieve?
Yes she
should have locked Sydney down sooner - no argument there, but they had no reason to believe their previous successes with the Alpha variant wouldn't be replicated against Delta. We now know that to be false, but you live and learn....
The UK daily figures (with 87.4 / 76.0% vaccinated) are for 37,314 cases & 114 deaths today (
Source). The UK population is 68.2M. Australia's population is 25.8M (37.8%) & NSW's is 8.2 (12%). Apply those percentages to the UK numbers, and you'll be in for a surprise - 14,000 daily cases Australia-wide, and 4,400 in NSW
alone! And remember - those numbers are in a population that is within 4% of our ultimate vaccination target.
Iceland a country of just 368,000 people, has achieved 71%
of the total population fully vaccinated, and
84% of those 12+ are fully vaccinated
(Source). And their current caseload? 61 new cases today, against a 14-day average 369/100K
(Source). Extrapolate those numbers to our population and you get 4,200 new cases today - and a
14-day average of 95,000 cases (or 6,800 a day).
And they're at 84% fully vaccinated for everyone over 12!
But don't worry if you live in Western Australia - Mark McGowan can stop it! He's said so!