I'm not sure what was behind their strategy,
If it was to avoid the virus until vaccinated then you'd have thought they'd have gone berserker on a vaccination campaign.
It surely cannot have been based on any hope that if they hid long enough it would go away?
Quite a lot of the Anglo American people here are Australian, and many of them friends of mine. They tell quite some stories about how Australians in Australia that don't travel themselves see no problem with borders being closed forever.
They also don't see why they should take a foreign vaccine to deal with a foreign virus when none of it is their fault and shouldn't be trusted.
They apparently have a very insular attitude resentful of foreign stuff. Especially towards the Asian countries.
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