yes goodness - over here there was no boasting about how good our systems were, we accepted they weren't going to be great.  

Pretty much it has been the same response as for the Spanish flu.  Except faster - went into lockdown faster, that means it's been easier as it goes up and down levels of restriction and the states fight over opening and closing borders which is difficult for the places where there are towns on both sides of the border, a stress factor which has created a situation where I am officially living in a bubble now.  (I like it!)

social distancing yes, but I haven't had to wear a mask.  Of course there are anomalies - when my brother and sister in law flew up to visit from Sydney they were still herded in like sardines but now getting a lecture over the intercom about social distancing at the same time.

I am hoping Qld will open their borders for the Summer holidays - take their fair share of the holiday makers or they'll all stop short here and we'll still get all the Queenslanders as they aren't stopped from coming here, seeing as we're a bubble, wait, do they mean tourist haven when they say bubble?  oh no...