it always was really bad there. i think that because the food is grown on land with low levels of iodine and selenium, australians are a lot more passive about bullshit than europeans, who get enough of those nutrients. put it this way, in 1993 my highschool introduced a social credit score system. my english teacher used it to punish me for hating his shitty assignments and i totally went off the rails in rebellion. didn't get the results i needed to get into CS and wandered off into the forest in Nimbin and didn't really come back for a decade (in my mind).