[TapWaterBandit]

You can't seriously be saying this is just a right-wing problem. Dan Andrews literally shutdown playgrounds to stop children playing (sorry "their parents congregating").

A brutal streak of authoritarianism runs deep on both sides of Australian politics. They only get angry about who gets to hold the whip.

[justinclift]

> Dan Andrews literally shutdown playgrounds to stop children playing (sorry "their parents congregating").

What are you on about? There was literally a pandemic on (and still kind of is).

Do you really think people can just go about their ordinary lives, with no thought for other people?

[TapWaterBandit]

Isn't that what we are doing now? Have you seen rates of uptake on boosters?

Lockdowns were a shocking totalitarian action I never thought I would live to see in my own country. But of course many can only see/say that when looking at China, even though what is happening there is just a more extreme mirror of our own crimes against humanity.

[strangeattractr]

More people were dying from COVID in June and July in Melbourne than at any point during the pandemic. Case numbers look low because nobody even bothers getting the PCR anymore unless they work in health.

The public can't be trusted to do the right thing. Many people aren't getting additional doses of the vaccine so their immunity has weakened. Why are we not in lockdown right now? It's literally costing lives as we speak.

[TapWaterBandit]

Yep, exactly. Lockdowns can only have been justified if we are willing to take the same action going forward under similar conditions and risk. If we aren't, then they were gross overreach of government powers.

For the record, I am not against the idea that the government would provide some financial support for people so they could have stayed at home etc. But the forced closure of the whole society including and especially the banning of seeing other people was unbelievably totalitarian and indefensible.