Resistance to any measures against Covid19 and encouraging scepticism or denialism has been strategic according to DeSmog U.K.; radical right libertarians who are very selective on science.

'How the UK's Climate Science Deniers Turned Their Attention to COVID-19. The coronavirus crisis quickly divided the population between those putting their trust in public health experts and others quick to question the science....

...A close look at commentary on both COVID-19 and climate change reveals significant crossover between unqualified voices casting doubt on experts recommending action.

Why?

“There’s nothing mysterious about this,” says Stephan Lewandowsky, a professor of cognitive science, who studies the persistence of misinformation in society at the University of Bristol.

“I think COVID is just climate change on steroids in a particle accelerator,” he says. “The same forces are happening: you have the inevitability of a virus which is the same as the inevitability of the physics. And opposing that you have politics which motivates some people to deny the inevitables and instead resort to bizarre claims.”

https://www.desmog.com/2020/08/10/how-uk-climate-science-deniers-turned-their-attention-coronavirus-covid-19/

Imagine for just a moment if there was a COVID-S as in Stupidity !
It'd be just great to sit back & watch indoctrinated hangers-on turning into Dominos !

Pauliar,

Strange that you are comparing Ardern with the Chadian dictator. But both are incompetent.

Aus has vaccinated 27% of the adult population with at least 1 jab, so not the 4% that you lied about.

Victoria's economy is doing far worse than NSW's that it has had a recent bounce does not compensate for the damage suffered under the incompetent Labor.

shonkyminister,

Ardern never made the claims that you man ScumO' made,

4,000,000 vaccinated by March.
The whole country fully vaccinated by October.
Australia is at the head of the queue (what, the sick queue).
All Aussies home and safe by Xmas.

Yes here we are in the middle of the year and none of the adove has been delivered. More of the Scotty from Marketing's smoke and mirrors. 4% of our population is fully vaccinated TRUE STATEMENT. The stop gap hotel quarantine, a ScumO' responsibly, is a joke as the Feds have sat on their hands for 12 months rather than do anything about the problem. The Coalition members are more interested in who gets the plum jobs than the Australian peoples health.

The so called Gold Standard government of Berejiklian in NSW had Mr Limo, driving infected aircrew around without ppe or a vaccination. What an incompetent joke, too busy with lover boy Darrel I suppose.

Don't you just wish Jacinda was running the country, instead of these incompetent morons from the Coalition?

Pauliar,

Telling porkies again? Jacinda promised a far faster delivery than she delivered. The plan was that everyone was to be vaccinated by the end of July and so far not even at risk are only getting vaccines by July / August.

The reason I know is that I am working in Christchurch at the moment and my wife of 60 with a heart condition is only scheduled for August.

FYI

"The ranking looks at how major countries around the world are handling the pandemic, taking into account social and economic disruption, mortality and infection rates, freedom of movement and how the vaccine rollout is going.

A new criterion this month is 'reopening progress' - a measure of each economy's openness to the world - with two metrics introduced to capture the ease of moving in and out of a place and how much air travel has recovered.

It's with this new criterion that the US has surged up the rankings from a lowly 13th in May to 1st in June, and New Zealand has been knocked off its perch.

"This pivot has ushered in dramatic changes to the ranks," Bloomberg writes. "The US is now No.1, with its fast and expansive vaccine rollout, dominated by the highly effective Messenger RNA shots, stemming what was once the world's worst outbreak."

New Zealand has slipped down the rankings thanks largely to what Bloomberg describes as a "lack of urgency" in its vaccine rollout. "