@Cornettoninja
I’m not sure what is meant by social care. Also ‘care packages’ aren’t a thing here unless it’s new since covid.
Earlier this year I attended an emergency department - and was discharged with a letter to my GP stating my reasons for attending & what they found and treatment given.
somehow I don’t think that’s a ‘care package.’
Our health systems seem to me to vary in a major way from UK in regard to management. Each state govt managed its own health system, with cooperation between states. The hospital/ health care system in my state is a behemoth. When it’s under strain we know then things are bad.
One of the differences to the response to Covid in Australia when compared to UK was that because our state govts have quite a bit of power, and this power was amped up by this being a health emergency, State Premiers (often of opposing political parties) worked together and were able to wrestle our then dill of Prime Minister and his Government into a more cautious position. Otherwise we would have had our own version, with variations, of Boris Johnson in charge. (Our then dill of a PM and his federal govt were thrown out at the last election a few months back).
The response to covid was far from perfect in Australia - fed govt fucked up vaccination rollout, and quarantine - but a few differences made for a better early response.
Now, we are more like UK and there are many people here that like to think that covid is little more than a common cold. And govts want to stay in power so they are going along with this - now setting the tone.
WHO has not called the pandemic over. They haven’t even yet called it Endemic - anywhere, afaik.
Sorry for such a long post. Watching This England has shown me how different our two countries are and yet how much the same. And I’ve been thinking about this a lot. So far I’ve come up with old Jack Lang saying (he’s a long dead PM) - “Always back self interest - at least you know it’s trying.”