Being an island helps probably? Then again most spread is domestic. I think they just took it slightly more seriously (probably because of proximity to China and SARS).
Australia already had a quarantine division and quarantine laws to prevent invasive species entering so despite being chud central they know how to stop diseases getting in.
Locking down borders helped, even if they were a little late on it. They also had mask mandates that people followed and actual lockdowns during outbreaks, not those half-assed US and UK styled ones, ones that could actually eliminate the spread. Of course those would not have been anywhere near as successful if they hadn't started giving people money when they couldn't work because of the lockdowns.
We're a smallish population spread out over a giant island and incredibly lucky. I honestly don't know, because we keep opening up too early and reinfecting previously uninfected states and also there was that time we let a cruise with infected ppl just go off and mingle with the general population.
We've fucked up like that so many times, that I don't know how it isn't worse other then luck. That, or they're lying about the numbers.
Obviously they're not hiding numbers, and it's not luck either, Australia is actually doing fine. Doesn't matter if there are a few infections, they are easy to control if they're not many. Australia got away because they actually had meaningful border control after having shut down and brought the infections down to almost 0, at which point you can just do small regional lockdowns and contact tracing. That's what pretty much every country that did well did. It's pretty much what China did too.
It seemed for a while like they were gonna fuck it up, I guess they realized it was better in every regard to do that instead, which somehow no one else realized.
How the fuck is Australia of all things the only one of these that is doing even remotely well (so far)
Being an island helps probably? Then again most spread is domestic. I think they just took it slightly more seriously (probably because of proximity to China and SARS).
Australia already had a quarantine division and quarantine laws to prevent invasive species entering so despite being chud central they know how to stop diseases getting in.
Locking down borders helped, even if they were a little late on it. They also had mask mandates that people followed and actual lockdowns during outbreaks, not those half-assed US and UK styled ones, ones that could actually eliminate the spread. Of course those would not have been anywhere near as successful if they hadn't started giving people money when they couldn't work because of the lockdowns.
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Wrong.
We're a smallish population spread out over a giant island and incredibly lucky. I honestly don't know, because we keep opening up too early and reinfecting previously uninfected states and also there was that time we let a cruise with infected ppl just go off and mingle with the general population.
We've fucked up like that so many times, that I don't know how it isn't worse other then luck. That, or they're lying about the numbers.
Obviously they're not hiding numbers, and it's not luck either, Australia is actually doing fine. Doesn't matter if there are a few infections, they are easy to control if they're not many. Australia got away because they actually had meaningful border control after having shut down and brought the infections down to almost 0, at which point you can just do small regional lockdowns and contact tracing. That's what pretty much every country that did well did. It's pretty much what China did too.
I refuse to believe that my country is capable of doing anything good
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but yeah you're probably right
It seemed for a while like they were gonna fuck it up, I guess they realized it was better in every regard to do that instead, which somehow no one else realized.
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