Back in March, when Qld went into lockdown, it was extremely successful at preventing new cases, allowing health authorities to mop up what was already there. It wasn't luck, there were reasons 1/n

Community organisations mostly participated in the push to tell their community about the nature of the lockdowns and what was required of people to do - especially their younger people, and especially their sons (young men are generally idiots)

Community organisations built temporary support arrangements across each other to assist in the weird problems that pop up, to have the capability and resources to solve them. They were supported by larger community orgs like unions and large non-profits.

Policing, as a result, was a relatively light touch compared to NSW and Vic, because there was little to police, and good behaviour begets good behaviour regardless of your moral view of this in what were *exigent circumstances*.

When problems arose, if smaller community groups couldn't get the government's attention, they could tell larger ones who could, larger ones who then did. Problems were solved quickly.

The most important thing here was that *everybody* agreed that everyone had to get their shit together and that there was no excuse for excuses.

As a result, an important part of the process occurred very early - bullshit artists were not tolerated. This often meant that things were run without the participation of the usual community leaders or community orgs. It was too important. Bullshit artists are destructive.

At the end of it all, it was the entire community that stamped Covid out in the lockdown, and the way that it was done *built* trust between Qld communities probably more than it had ever existed before, and in most respects still exists to this day.

What mattered was getting everyone to behave themselves, even if it was inconvenient. It was achieved in Qld by people being organised within and between their communities, helping each other wherever possible and telling excuse makers to fuck off. It worked. /End