JoChris
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Like every country Australia has its advantages and disadvantages. For us the distance in between cities is unimaginable for most foreigners. Once my husband had to jumpstart the car of stranded foreigners in the outback who hadn't carried water in the car (the engine overheated and they were stranded). It isn't people who are the danger here, it is nature to the unprepared. Once people are outside of towns there isn't any help available unless a truckie passes by.I didn't realize you were from Australia until you mentioned it. I had always wanted to visit there and see a kangaroo until y'all got real serious about the vaxxasination!
N e ways Australia is still a beautiful land brought about by God. Not even the wicked in power can alter that!
It is easy for foreigners to see how extreme our response to COVID was, but something I think you don't realise is how few hospitals we have outside of cities that are up to providing critical care, at least for more than a few cases at a time.
There are hundreds of kilometres in between hospitals. Many tiny towns don't have maternity care, let alone critical care!
My regional town sends serious cases to the city over 100 kms away immediately. They just don't have enough beds.
The fear at the time was If COVID got outside of big cities, remote communities would not have just struggled, they would have been wiped out.
My state of Queensland cut us off from the southern states for a long time because of that. Western Australia has even worse issues because of remoteness and so they cut themselves off from the world for the longest.