FWiW, because it's a very unique situation globally, W.Australia a state 3x the size of Texas with a population a bit over 2 million people effectively "sheltered in place" by airlocking its borders - international and inter state flights had to quarentine, road transport on the one major transport road to the eastern state was pick up | drop off with out of state drivers quarentined, shipping through the port was non contact with crews quarentined.
W.Australia's COVID-19 vaccine roll-out began 22 February 2021.
The state remained isolated from 24th March 2020 until 3rd March 2022, by which time essentially every person in the state had been double vaccinated.
For the most part people continued life as before, now and again the capital city would have portions "locked down" when there was an active case in order to contain spread and test potential carriers.
The first active case was the 21st February 2020, contained. The first COVID death was 1st Mar 2020.
Active case numbers stayed low until There was no real increase in active cases until February 2022. There was no significant increase in deaths due to COVID until March 2022.
"Shelter in state until vaccinations rolled out" for a state that was already largely independant and isolated worked just fine - the deaths started once the borders opened, but at rates greatly below those seen elsewhere in the world thanks to a vaccination buffering.
As someone that lives in Perth, our experience as a while through COVID was actually a net positive. Not to take away from anyone who lost loved ones, but Perth basically gained the benefits of COVID (WFH shift, better health funding, better remote technologies) and very few of the negatives.
It is an extremely rare situation though, and would not have been possible if it were not the most isolated capital city in the world.
W.Australia's COVID-19 vaccine roll-out began 22 February 2021.
The state remained isolated from 24th March 2020 until 3rd March 2022, by which time essentially every person in the state had been double vaccinated.
For the most part people continued life as before, now and again the capital city would have portions "locked down" when there was an active case in order to contain spread and test potential carriers.
The first active case was the 21st February 2020, contained. The first COVID death was 1st Mar 2020. Active case numbers stayed low until There was no real increase in active cases until February 2022. There was no significant increase in deaths due to COVID until March 2022.
"Shelter in state until vaccinations rolled out" for a state that was already largely independant and isolated worked just fine - the deaths started once the borders opened, but at rates greatly below those seen elsewhere in the world thanks to a vaccination buffering.
W.Australian cases Jan 2020 - now: https://covidlive.com.au/report/daily-cases/wa#2020
W.Australian deaths Jan 2020 - now: https://covidlive.com.au/report/daily-deaths/wa#2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Western_A...