There is too much emphasis in this discussion on a plan to track a very small number of people who would normally be locked in hotel quarantine and not enough o

There is too much emphasis in this discussion on a plan to track a very small number of people who would normally be locked in hotel quarantine and not enough on this: As it turned out, the bet paid off. Had it behaved rationally and adequately valued liberty, a rich nation like Australia would have spent lavishly—before knowing which vaccines would turn out to be most effective—to secure an adequate supply of many options for its people. It could afford to eat the cost of any extra doses and donate them to poorer countries. Australia then could have marshaled its military and civil society to vaccinate the nation as quickly as possible, lifted restrictions more fully than Europe and the United States did, and argued that the combination of fewer deaths and the more rapid return to normalcy made their approach a net win. Instead, Australia invested inadequately in vaccines and, once it acquired doses, was too slow to get them into arms. “Of the 16 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine that have been released to the government by manufacturer CSL, only about 8 million have gone into the arms of Australians” The federal government is incompetent and lazy and thought because they had dodged one bullet they were bullet proof.