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.
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.