[threeseed]

UK has a population of 60 million. Australia is 25 million. Both are a set of islands.

Not exactly an order of magnitude difference in population but yet there is a massive difference in the strategies and polices they've deployed. And now UK is a complete mess heading into winter and Australia has effective elimination.

[twblalock]

> And now UK is a complete mess heading into winter and Australia has effective elimination.

Of course it might help that Australia is actually heading into summer.

[threeseed]

And it has been eliminated before the summer months.

Also in many places in Australia it was eliminated well before winter.

[anotherevan]

I am in the part of Australia that didn't eliminate it well before winter. But with 112 days of lock-down _during_ winter we certainly had the numbers come down dramatically and have had twenty-three days so far of no new infections or deaths.

From tomorrow we no longer have to wear masks outside unless it gets crowded such that you cannot maintain physical distancing!

[eloff]

The UK is also next to Europe and a travel and business hub for the world. Australia is next to nothing important and has far less travel to and from the rest of the world.