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<blockquote data-quote="Magnetoman" data-source="post: 129469" data-attributes="member: 2806"><p>As an outsider I don't have to live with whatever restrictions you Australians do. All I know is there has been an average of no more than 1 covid death/day<em> for your entire country</em> for the past ten days, whereas ours has been stuck at ~700/day for months. Further, our number of new cases/day has increased by 75% since the middle of September, on track to surpass our previous peak by the end of the month, so an already-bad situation is rapidly getting worse. Per capita, to date you've lost 10x fewer people than we have. Personally, if I had the choice, I would rather watch a gaggle of New Zealanders frolic outside my window, spending their pesos to help our economy, and in exchange have 22,000 dead in my country rather than the 220,000 we have had to date.</p><p></p><p>This is a very frustrating time. Even though I'm free to travel, there's no way I'll want to go near an airport, or take an overnight motorcycle ride and stay in a motel, until the situation changes. I'm not allowed to attend the opening of the exhibition in Brisbane that I worked three years to create, but that disappointment barely registers as a 1 on a 10-point scale of awful situations many people are dealing with. For nearly all of us, 2020 will go down in memory as perhaps the worst year we've ever experienced.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magnetoman, post: 129469, member: 2806"] As an outsider I don't have to live with whatever restrictions you Australians do. All I know is there has been an average of no more than 1 covid death/day[I] for your entire country[/I] for the past ten days, whereas ours has been stuck at ~700/day for months. Further, our number of new cases/day has increased by 75% since the middle of September, on track to surpass our previous peak by the end of the month, so an already-bad situation is rapidly getting worse. Per capita, to date you've lost 10x fewer people than we have. Personally, if I had the choice, I would rather watch a gaggle of New Zealanders frolic outside my window, spending their pesos to help our economy, and in exchange have 22,000 dead in my country rather than the 220,000 we have had to date. This is a very frustrating time. Even though I'm free to travel, there's no way I'll want to go near an airport, or take an overnight motorcycle ride and stay in a motel, until the situation changes. I'm not allowed to attend the opening of the exhibition in Brisbane that I worked three years to create, but that disappointment barely registers as a 1 on a 10-point scale of awful situations many people are dealing with. For nearly all of us, 2020 will go down in memory as perhaps the worst year we've ever experienced. [/QUOTE]
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