Quote Originally Posted by studsg View Post
If they did their 2 jobs better at quarantine (proper facilities instead of hotels without proper quarantine ventilation) and vaccines, the 10 million Pfizer order was just not gonna cut it.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-...nted/100358798

Now we are stuck with months on months of separation from our favourite ML and WL. Without new stock, even existing stock will go away when there is no way they can operate "legitimately" and make a living here.

"Gold Standard" indeed.
Well it may seem we have been let down. But if you look at things broader terms we are still doing much better than many countries. The US and UK are open now but they had too many covid related deaths which is 1900 per million people. While Australia had 36 deaths per million. We have not done so bad with the economy also. We in Sydney have been lucky and for most of us last lockdown was May last year. Between May 2020 and June 2021 we were open except for the Avalon cluster. The only mistake is we were not prepared for the delta variant. At least when Victoria was in lockdown some months back we should have acted earlier.