"Former Covid-Zero proponents remain lower ranked in November, with Australia 33th (sic), New Zealand at No. 36 and Singapore 37th as they slowly reopen once shuttered borders but still lag the rest of the world on reigniting travel."<p>It is fascinating to see such a bias throughout the media towards international travel as such a highly-valued marker for people's welfare, when for most people their income does not allow for frequent international travel anyway.<p>Rich people's skiing trips are not worth more than poor people's grandparents.<p>Australia is now (at last) getting up to very high rates of vaccination and has had incredibly low total rates of Covid infection compared to the rest of the world. It's bizarre that it's not considered a success story in comparison to the countries with hundreds of thousands of deaths. Maybe my interpretation of "resilience" differs significantly from the authors'.