CV and mad panic behaviour

[DJC]

There is 2 things at play with this.
1. The Science.
2. The politicians implementing restrictions.

As we know, the science is the same the world over, essentially, some people are ahead of others and what not, but eventually everyone is on the same page.

However, the politicians varied drastically with their approach, country by country, state by state.
So 'best practice' was 'best practice.......for the politicians at the time.
Some were more conservative, some were more blase.
Some focussed on eliminating deaths.
Some focussed on minimising deaths.
Some focussed on keeping the economy alive.
Some focussed on whatever worked best for them and their mates.

I don't want to get into a who did what and why, but every country and every state and every country has an issue with how their leader handled things.

The science isn’t the same the world over.  Western science is way ahead of third world science and the status of scientific research  varies considerably from one country to the next.  India had very little idea of its COVID death toll and was unable to formulate a coherent response.  Sweden’s scientific response was at odds with most other western countries … and their citizens paid the price.

Even in our country, the scientific advice varied considerably from State to State and from State to Commonwealth.  How much of that was down to scientists conforming to political demands is debatable.