And this being Australia, was promptly locked in quarantine for 3 weeks

“Miracle Tot”, found alive after three days alone in the Bush.

A missing 3-year-old autistic boy who was feared to have been abducted was found safe Monday — after surviving three days alone in the Australian bush.

Anthony ‘AJ’ Elfalak, who went missing from his family’s home in Putty on Friday, was spotted Monday morning as he desperately scooped water into his mouth in a creek less than half a mile from home.

“Stand by — I’ve got the boy,” a rescuer in a police helicopter said, according to video footage released by New South Wales Police that showed AJ sitting in dirty water up to his waist as he desperately drank.

“I’m sure his parents would have liked to hug him”, Victoria Premier Dan Andrews (might have) told FWIW, “but rules are rules, and they’ll have the opportunity to reunite with and greet him in just 21 days; unless, of course, the parents themselves aren’t vaccinated, in which case, the delay may last until 2029”.

Australia is in the grip of a massive COVID panic, with a full 1,036 deaths since it began, in a population of 25 million.