I live in Melbourne, we went through a nightmare of lockdowns, not one but multiple lockdowns.
I have no idea what he means by Australia as the gold standard as every state was affected differently.
Every state shut their borders. Western Australia had very few cases and from my perspective carried on as normal in their bubble. Each of the
states had some form of lockdown from a few days to a couple of months, so when he or anyone talks about the pandemic and Australia in the same
sentence they have no idea. A lot of Australians went on with their life as normal, they just couldn't leave their state without some sort of
permit.
Victoria was by far affected the most with rolling lockdowns with varying degrees. A lot of small businesses went under and many people lost their
jobs.
The worst lockdown was:
"STATE OF DISASTER: STAGE 4 RESTRICTIONS + CURFEW (2 AUGUST 2020 – 28 OCTOBER 2020)
From 6pm Sunday 2nd August 2020 Victoria declared a State of Disaster, alongside the existing State of Emergency and placed Metropolitan Melbourne
into Stage 4 Restrictions for 6 weeks, which ended up being extended to 28 October 2020.
Regional Victoria entered Stage 3 Restrictions on 4 August 2020 which was set to last until 13 September 2020. (Mitchell Shire remained on Stage 3
restrictions when Metro Melbourne went into Stage 4)
At the time there were 6,322 active cases in the state, the death toll was 123, there were 385 people in hospital, 38 of whom were in intensive care &
the aged care outbreak had grown to 1,083 cases.
Existing 4 reasons to leave the home;
Could go no further than 5km from your house for shopping or to exercise;
Curfew in place between 8pm and 5am;
Exercise limited to 1 hour outside per day, with only 1 other person;
Face masks mandatory;
Able to visit a partner, even if more than 5km away;
All non-essential retail stores to close (can provide a click and collect service);
Restaurants and Cafe’s to return to takeaway only;
Hairdressers, Beauticians, Personal Care, Gyms etc to close;
Uber/Taxi can operate but passengers sit in the back and wear masks;
Weddings not permitted;
Funerals are limited to 10 mourners.
Night network suspended and public transport services reduced
All Victorian school students to return to remote learning (from 4 Aug 2020);
Childcare & Kindergarten closed (from 5 August 2020)"
Credit for the above:
bigaustraliabucketlist.com...
This experience has been horrible and I would not want this on anyone.
K