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Follow health advice to escape the gilded cage
As health experts now warn, breaking out of Australia’s gilded COVID-safe cage will depend on accepting the need to live with the virus when new cases inevitably appear.
The politically popular COVID-19 elimination strategy pursued by state governments is now the major obstacle to reopening Australia’s international borders as the vaccine rollout makes it much safer and less risky to do so.
According to former deputy chief medical officer Nick Coatsworth, reopening the international borders will require Australia to forsake “the false idol of eradication” and the idea of hiding out in an “eliminationist bunker”.
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