US has ~12 times the population of Australia.
US has ~384 times the Australian death toll from Covid. (I realise the US has a major miscounting issue of died from/with but not sure it explains this).
Australia may have over-reacted in some areas but our culture is just different
US has ~384 times the Australian death toll from Covid. (I realise the US has a major miscounting issue of died from/with but not sure it explains this).
Australia may have over-reacted in some areas but our culture is just different
Australia is an easy foil for American Covid paranoia - we speak English, our grifters can hawk dubious videos to easy marks on the US side, and there is now a whole information eco system that runs on crankery, pseudo medications, miracle cures, etc, as well as a therapy culture
To be fair to Americans, I suspect one reason so many Americans are so suspicious of Big Pharma - and Australians are not, generally - is that in the US, so many people are on prescription medications & painkillers, that is not prescribed widely (tmk) in our medical culture.
Australia had a terrible experience with Spanish Flu. Its significant death toll came at the end of 4 gruesome years of the Great War, in which Australia suffered. Spanish Flu did great damage to our Indigenous communities, which is something we all hang our heads in shame over.
So, anyway, I wrote this thread to explain why Australia is different. Both my late parents were British Empire migrants, so I think, as a first generation Australian, I see our country, clearly. Nonetheless, clearly no one read it, alas.
https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1421461574389145600
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