Lots in here to read through, but i want to interject for a moment about this line: States such as Australia and New Zealand paid a heavy price for misundersta

Lots in here to read through, but i want to interject for a moment about this line: States such as Australia and New Zealand paid a heavy price for misunderstanding what exactly worked and did not work against Covid-19. Suddenly, with the onset of the Delta variant, the boasting about superior national lockdown policy and execution has ended. (about Australia's lockdown policy being ineffective). There were two states that got the lockdown policy wrong, New South Wales and Victoria. Other states managed to wipe out coronavirus and remain virus free. the key for the successful states was to lock down early, when case numbers were still small and manageable. Locking down late (and exiting/easing lockdowns before you hit zero cases is how oyu end up with the nightmare that NSW and Victoria have lived through for the past year. This seems like useless information in hindsight but it may come in handy if we find ourselves faced with another deadly transmissible disease in future.