“Given this level of official hysteria, an outsider might imagine that Australia is a Covid charnel house. In fact, all of Australia is recording around 150 coronavirus cases a day. The current outbreak of 2,000 or so cases total over the past month has been associated with eight deaths so far, almost all of them people over 70.
This in a nation that records, on average, about 460 deaths a day from all causes. Cancer kills nearly 50,000 Australians a year. Shark attacks killed eight in 2020.
A good 18 months into the pandemic, the nation is still trapped in April 2020. Adelaide and Melbourne are hoping to come out of lockdown in some form this week; Sydney, the economic engine room of Australia, is likely to remain under restriction through at least August.
Among the relentlessly secular Australian left, as with their woke American counterparts, Covid has provided a moral code even more compelling and immediate than climate change. As the screws were tightening on Sydney’s lockdowns a few weeks ago, nonessential retail shops were still allowed to stay open, leading these 21st-century Savonarolas to hammer the government on Twitter over why people were still allowed to buy luxury handbags during a pandemic.
If they get their way, not many people will be able to afford to buy one when it’s over, either.”
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