What Australia and New Zealand should have done given foresight:

Buy time to prepare more resiliency (e.g., more ICU capacity, vaccines, masks) for the inevitable breach

Instead of this crazy "zero COVID" policy

— Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy (@trishankkarthik) September 3, 2021

I agree, but it didn’t take any foresight to know that, to do those things. It just required not being a full-on dumbass. That’s it; that’s all.

Australia and New Zealand decided that idiotic Zero Covid Forever was the way to go and the only possible plan, and now they’ll pay for it for a long, long, long time. I don’t want their people to suffer, but they brought it on themselves. Now it’s — as I like to say — the consequences phase.