Me right now. Thanks for hoarding the vaccine USA even from your erstwhile “allies” until a variant virulent enough to breakthrough good quarantine measures evolved.
Can it break through though? Or did it just catch countries off guard once they had relaxed their precautions?
I can’t speak for other countries but Australia had seen off several waves via staged lockdowns, city and state border closures, and rapid contact tracing. Delta is just a bit too fast-spreading for this to work. That said our state authorities should have gone to full lockdown a week earlier.
How bad is the lockdown fatigue down under? I would at least think there would be some sense of reinvigoration from previous success, as opposed to the grinding futility that has been the American experience of trying to stop the spread.
