>bravado about being "the best country in the world"
You mean "the lucky country"? That's an ironic, self-deprecating joke.
>The contrast between Dan Andrew's daily fear-mongering and berating of "rule-breakers" and Angela Merkel
As have the number of deaths between the two countries. 90k+ in Germany vs. <1k in Aus. (If you scale it per-capita, it's still about 25k vs 1k).
>I think a lot of Australians are on board with the border closures, the lockdowns and the like, which is astonishing to me, but I think the degree of fear there is what fundamentally explains it.
No, we're on board because it saves lives and people don't want to see their family die in the name of some abstract concept.
You mean "the lucky country"? That's an ironic, self-deprecating joke.
>The contrast between Dan Andrew's daily fear-mongering and berating of "rule-breakers" and Angela Merkel
As have the number of deaths between the two countries. 90k+ in Germany vs. <1k in Aus. (If you scale it per-capita, it's still about 25k vs 1k).
>I think a lot of Australians are on board with the border closures, the lockdowns and the like, which is astonishing to me, but I think the degree of fear there is what fundamentally explains it.
No, we're on board because it saves lives and people don't want to see their family die in the name of some abstract concept.