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Originally Posted by Azure
Did anyone actually think COVID zero is a practical policy?
As soon as we began seeing how effective the vaccines were, the solution was to get everyone vaccinated, not keep restrictions and lockdowns in place for 300+ days while twiddling around on vaccination supply, nevermind employing highly restriction lockdowns that kept businesses closed that could easily operate with minimal risk.
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It
was a practical policy, in
absence of vaccines.
I don't believe any country has preferred lockdowns over vaccine procurement and rollout. New Zealand's issue was supply. Whether they were lower priority or their contracts weren't as favourable to manufacturers who had other obligations to meet is unclear, but it's not as simple as you make it out to be. It hasn't been that simple for most of the world.