You weren't willing to consider closing bars and restaurant a few short weeks ago, despite what the science told us.
It's not "evidence", it's mathematics. The longer you wait, the larger the number of cases already baked in, and the longer it will take for any lockdown and rollback to achieve the same level of effect. That's basic stuff - you want more lockdown and stage 2 time? Go right ahead and don't listen.
Of course we can do; have you seen how severe the restrictions were in the state of Victoria and Melbourne? Another free country/province (state) very similar to ours, you know.
Mapping Victoria’s path toward COVID Normal.
www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au
What restrictions we had was pathetic - pathetic in scope, pathetic in execution, and pathetic in communication. Their government knew what they had to do to get back to a modicum of normalcy. Ours? Faking it. Recall the triumphant "we are flattening the curve" baldface before the L2 announcement a few short days later? Stuff of legends. It's like GWB's "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq. Ours took almost a week to figure out whether you can have Thanksgiving with extended family and friends, FFS.
Oh and the whole "but they don't have a border with so and so" is a red herring - they have restricted entry with mandatory quarantine, just like we do. It isn't like you can just casually go across the land border for the last 6 months. Also, an absolute minority of our cases is travel-related - not the pattern you would expect if you have travel being the predominant avenue of spread.
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