Because I have nothing better to do with my time then type about Covid.
Lets use Australia as the example:
In 2020 they had one of the strictest lock downs you could have short of welding doors shut like they did in China. This worked because they're an island country and could basically close everything down quite easily relative to the rest of the world who share land boarders. They ran a couple deaths a day with the very low hundreds of new cases/day. Due to the lack of large numbers its hard to do an accurate death/case but if 2.5 people died and 250 people caught covid that day you're running right at 1%. That would be underselling what they actually had happen.
Delta variant hit and their numbers climbed, but again they went after harsh lock downs. ~15 deaths/day with 2100 cases/day .71% death rate
Omicron BA2 is currently in Australia yet they've chose to not lock down unlike before (and coincidentally BA2 is ticking up here as well). Right now they're running ~55K cases a day with ~35ish deaths/day or a death rate of .006%
Viruses tend to mutate towards significantly more contagious and significantly less deadly. Australia's data pretty much follows exactly what the world experienced and exactly what we're seeing in other countries right now. Quoting +1700% death rate is so bullshit clickbait, because they basically had no deaths for awhile between Omicron and Omicron BA2...........just like the rest of the world.
Maybe its not getting reported on because there's nothing to report?
