Interesting puzzle.... why are so many English speaking countries leading the world in dysfunctional destructive covid policies?
Canada and Australia are stuck in eternal lockdown mode, but New Zealand leads the pathetic pack and the country is seeing a massive crisis in children's health - not from covid which is not dangerous to them at all - but from covid policies which have compromised their immune systems (no exposure to the usual bacterial and viral infections of childhood leaves them more vulnerable)
theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/08/new-zealand-children-falling-ill-in-high-numbers-due-to-covid-immunity-debt
Here's a scathing criticism of Irish policies (the New Zealand of Europe?)
spiked-online.com/2021/07/08/spare-a-thought-for-locked-down-ireland/
Two possibilities - since most covid policies aren't about health but about a change to economic and governments systems (best name so far is 'technical feudalism') English speaking countries are simply ahead of everyone else.
There's also the trade off between uncertainty and risk - English speaking countries, for the most part, don't mind uncertainty but hate risk (Poland is the opposite - uncertain and novel situations make people nervous but they can deal with calculated risks).
So.... whazzup?