Furries It’s an issue of perspective isn’t it? 100000 deaths is so off the scale compared with other countries that differences in accounting don’t come into it. For sure there are countries like Iran, China and Russia that lie through their teeth but we were doing that in March and it was only legitimacy that forced the government to start to improve testing and the processes of accounting for cases and deaths. We may never know how many people died as a result of catching Covid, whether it was because of serious co morbidities or not. (And a lot of the so called contributing illnesses were chronic ailments that people would have spent years living with. 17% of Londoners turned out to have antibodies in June, that means there were 1.5 million cases, though a tenth of that officially. All the indications are that at first more people died as a result of getting Covid than the official figures, not less.
You may be sick of hearing Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, , Thailand, Vietnam, quoted, but you can’t justify stopping people highlighting deaths in 4 figures at most, and in some cases single figures. I’m pretty sick of it myself after three long lockdowns and 5 periods of household isolation, two of three weeks around long delayed surgeries, the rest including Christmas and New Year, being as a result of contact, and actually being left to catch Covid at the end of February (with antibodies to prove it) but no proof or requirement to isolate. My neice has had one lockdown in Melbourne and her hospital’s wards and the rest of her life are back to normal,
Perth will get on top of its cases, that is how zero Covid works. It is like a leaky sieve, the virus might get through one layer but there are many layers / ways of suppressing the virus, testing, tracking, Isolating, quarantining, managing borders, masks, social distance, hygiene. Restricting social contact should be a last resort not a first because our government hasn’t implemented the first seven.....