Yeah exactly, it's a double edged sword, it's two diametrically opposed schools of thoughts (yours and "the other", the collectivist one you are referring to with china) with their pros and cons While australians are anglos originally, having an anglo-saxon cultural background traditionally favoring individual freedom and personal responsibility, they also have a quasi totalitarian side; they have a reputation of being fucking maniacs when it comes to the control of foreign species on their soil, because in the past and to this day, they got a massive problem with rabbits for instance, it's an ecological disaster And yeah a virus... You can see how this quasi totalitarian/control freak mindset kicked in, and unfortunately... Wrong move, they fell for it, and now see the result...