And more importantly the government actually tried to stop it while that was still possible. In most countries there was a progression of "no evidence for human to human transmissoin" to "just the flu" to "flatten the curve" to "huh, I guess we want to avoid most people getting it but our caseloads too high high for contact tracing to work".
To be fair there was a time it could have gone out of control but Aussies followed the rules, trusted the govt and they got it under control.
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