Well, you shouldn't trust any governments. That's a good baseline.
But I think it was a legitimate question, or theory if you will, that IF you shut down transmission on an island (NZ or Iceland, for example), or on a remote Very Big Island (Australia) that you could wait it out.
Australia, NZ, and Iceland were very very successful on their own terms, having zero or near zero cases for > 1 year and normal social and economic activity.When Australia chose its course, we did not know which of these were correct.
Now we do.
Australia, NZ, and Iceland were very very successful on their own terms, having zero or near zero cases for > 1 year and normal social and economic activity.When Australia chose its course, we did not know which of these were correct.
Now we do.
We don’t know the reason why one country is successful. It might simply be that they had a mild virus similar to the wuhan coronavirus previously and that gave them immunity.
It might be something else.