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I believe the governments in Australia do benefit from the lockdowns. I'm from Australia, but live in Germany, so when I look back home from here, I'm shocked b

I believe the governments in Australia do benefit from the lockdowns. I'm from Australia, but live in Germany, so when I look back home from here, I'm shocked by how deliberately the fear of Covid has been stoked and played up in Australia. Constantly in and out of lockdowns, daily press conferences about death and case numbers, no path out and no hope. It feels to me that Australia will be a country suffering from PTSD once it finds a way out of the pandemic and impossible dream of zero covid. (For comparison, here in Europe, the pandemic is largely over, and our vaccination wall is looking strong enough that even what's coming over winter shouldn't be too bad.)

XorNot 5y ago
There are not enough vaccines. Which is to say, the current Liberal government was offered a blank cheque from Pfizer to order as many as it could mid last year, instead didn't (because they're incompetent and incapable of understanding moderately sophisticated ideas), and then proceeded to engage in a runabout of graft, corruption and waste that means even when we are technically overflowing with AstraZeneca vaccines it's actually still surprisingly hard to have them (and I'll note, we also got short changed on AZ because Europe shut down exports of it for a while - though that's also on the Fed gov because again, we could've bought literally as much Pfizer as we wanted early on). They aren't benefiting from anything: the governments are all rightly tanking in popularity, and being held up by Rupert Murdoch's multi-decadal commitment to dumbing down the narrative.