A piece in The Irish Times about how Ireland blew it after achieving such good results initially.
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/fintan-o-toole-we-had-zero-covid-and-we-blew-it-1.4493942?mode=amp
Clark, I believe you are correct, if EVERYWHERE went into strict lockdowns and all borders were closed for 6 weeks it could be eliminated but it would have to be everywhere and to the same effectiveness. That just is never going to happen across all countries on the planet at the same time, at least, not unless the situation becomes an extinction level event.
If some countries do it, which some have, once they re open borders it’s going to get back n seeded from those countries that didn’t lockdown.
Here on IOM we have had another cluster of cases related to ferry staff whom they hadn’t vaccinated. They have tracked and traced well but there are two “unexplained” cases.