Quote (Plaguefear @ 7 Jan 2021 06:51)
In my country we listened to the professionals and no one outside of one city has to wear a mask, keep reaching though champ.
- island/no land borders
- far away from the main international travel/transit routes
- the population centers in AUS are so far away from one another that isolating a hotspot from the rest of the country is feasible, both timing- and logistics-wise
- lucky enough to not have thousands of daily cases of undetected community spread when the severity of the situation was recognized
- Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city which accounts for one fifth of the country's population and GDP, had to spent almost half a year in lockdowns
- Sydney currently is on the brink of requiring another hard lockdown