Our beloved covid friend, how your country deals with him and how it affects you

[Relax]

There seems to a total totalitarian movement in Australia and people are being forced to take the jab.  Hoping some one from there could tell us whether or not what we are seeing in the news is the truth.

I'm in Australia... no mandatory vaccination - everyone is voluntarily getting vaccinated and my state (Victoria) is in yet another lockdown which was due to end this Thurs - but now extended (masks, no socialising, can only travel a 5km radius for essential supplies...) and we're happy to do this - we've seen how it's decimated millions internationally . We're taking this seriously - particularly in my state.
Personally I support mandatory vacc btw - I also support drivers licenses, and other mandated sensible laws to protect people.

I don't think it will need to become mandatory tough - people here want to be protected by vaccination. Everyone is willingly wearing masks, washing their hands, sanitising with disinfectant before entering public places, standing 1.5m apart... and we're breathing a massive sigh of relief that we're safer.

I've also noticed a far greater sense of community, solidarity, connection and helping each other.

One other thing - most Australians see through bullshit and are quite anti-authority - yes that's a generalisation - but historically we're individualistic people - we don't do what we think is dubious - but we also know what is sensible. And we have a long standing wariness about the USA in particular.