It remains to be seen whether the actions taken by the Morrison government in the last two weeks will have been swift and comprehensive enough to stem the exponential growth of the spread in Australia of coronavirus, but the early signs are promising. Being a numbers game, it was always the case, as this magazine argued, that going in hard — swift and decisive action early on — was the only logical response to a situation where normally a ‘let’s wait and see’ approach would be the politician’s natural haven.