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by bigiain 2049 days ago
The people of Melbourne/Victoria in Australia would like a word...

They went from a "second wave" of over 700 new cases a day, to just having hit 16 consecutive days of zero new cases - all due to lockdown restrictions and mask wearing.

It was tough on people. But it worked.

Looking at numbers like 160,000 new cases a day is horrifying. Death rates seem to be globally hovering right around 0.5% - that's a lot of dead people...