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So Australia (Melbourne at the time) and the UK had basically the same case reports per day in July. One place crushed it, the other didn’t. [0] https://mobile

• grey-area 6y ago
  Firstly, the UK response has been terrible, Australia far better. However there are several contributing factors and it certainly doesn’t come down to mask use as the primary one as mask discipline in the UK hasn’t been bad in my experience. This is a seasonal disease (the main reason for the UK summer reprieve), and it’s now summer in Australia, and they have also been far better at quarantines and contact tracing and have used this period wisely to get the disease under control. All these factors matter in a response, and the UK has suffered from panic management and a lack of difficult measures at the right time and is now entering the peak season for this sort of virus so things will get worse for a month or two at least, even with a new lockdown.