re: #207 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

Then how did Australia and New Zealand manage to succeed in stamping it out?

They did it EARLY. Early, early, early, before community transmission. New Zealand is helped by it’s geography. Australia just seems to have good fortune, though even they have had outbreaks.

I get this: We lizards are DESPERATE for the pandemic to make sense, to punish “bad” people and reward “good” people through their patience. But as someone said about politics last year, we don’t live in this kind of world. A lot of this is driven by chance. I’m saying that we have perhaps done all we can, considering how unresponsive we were a year ago.

Perhaps we’re best not to tell people to “isolate harder” and stay in perpetual fear of an unknown future. Maybe we don’t depend on Amazon to stay at home forever if we don’t need to.