Australia doesn’t have rolling lockdowns “as the virus spreads”. It does have a law-abiding population, geographic isolation and luck. In most states, life is

Australia doesn’t have rolling lockdowns “as the virus spreads”. It does have a law-abiding population, geographic isolation and luck. In most states, life is almost normal, and has been for months. In New South Wales, for political reasons, they aren’t going all-out against Covid, but even there, they’ve managed to control the virus through effective contact tracing. Victoria, which became the worst affected state because of the second wave (from foreign arrivals), seems to have recovered well after a stringent lockdown, and is on track for full reopening. Ultimately, Eurasia is probably too interconnected, and the US is too individualistic to make a dent in Covid, but Australia is not a good example of failed lockdowns, since lockdowns actually worked extremely well there.