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[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Where does that say anything about expecting deaths and hospitalisations to increase? You're just making up bullshit.

The first stage is about using locks downs, quarantines, social distancing etc to reduce and control community transmission of the disease. Australia was barely touched by Covid in comparison to other countries, but a year ago the hospitals' intensive care departments were filled almost to overflowing with Covid patients.

Stage B is about moving to post vaccination management: many people will be vaccinated, community transmission will become much less likely. Most importantly, if there is an outbreak, instead of spreading exponentially (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256...) it will spread much more slowly (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12...) since most people will be partially or fully immune.

Stage C is about shifting to management of Covid more like other notifiable infectious diseases, like TB, HIV, cholera, diphtheria, anthrax, rabies, Legionaire's Disease, leprosy, Black Plague, SARS, Yellow Fever, smallpox, ebola, etc.

And stage D is when that transition is complete, and Covid will be one of the other dozens of notifiable diseases that need management.