Jamaicans suffered through almost 300 days of stay-at-home restrictions. Nigerians can claim the same. The citizens of Venezuela, now in the depths of a 1500 case-per-day second wave, have checked off more than 200 days.
The school uses hundreds of volunteers around the world to monitor policy measures loosely fitting definitions of lockdown, including school closures, border closures, stay-at-home orders, business closures and mask mandates.If only one part of a nation - Melbourne, for example - was in strict lockdown, researchers would revise down the whole-of-country score accordingly.Australia topped out at 78 in February this year, when several states reimposed short-term restrictions.
When it comes to length, Melbourne did it tough, too. While Jamaica did 300 days, its stay-at-home orders were not necessarily hardline the entire time.
Idiotic reporting on “strictest lockdown” in 2020 when the pandemic was really only just getting started around the world! Anything for a headline for most news outlets. How about a comparison of the outcomes achieved by each lockdown?
But Melbourne had the loudest complainers, tin foil hatters and know it all’s!!!
The preventative measures were preventable. Where is Dan, btw?