It's clear the government is on the back foot over the lockdown. The protests over the weekend made it look as though they were the cause of the lockdown relaxation. This is good, and we need more of the same, especially in Victoria, where the most extreme measures still apply. The restrictions on socialising, normal family life, work, and even going to church, are ridiculous. The solution is to take no notice of them and protests are a great way of rubbing it in. If this is done on a massive scale, governments will think twice about doing this kind of thing again. Governments in the West are keen to use any excuse to engage in social engineering and extra control. They think Coronavirus is a great pretext. What not to do. The main argument being used by governments ruling by decree is to declare all opponents of the lockdown to be extremists with views most people don't share. This was always going to be their strategy but there's no need for us to play the game. We...
Our officials gleefully prophesied a Swedish disaster. Wrong! https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/a-disaster-waiting-to-happen-or-a-bold-evidence-based-response-in-sweden-it-depends-who-you-ask-20200420-p54ll8.html This article in The Age , while still trying to create fear where there is none, could not hide the truth: with no lockdown, Sweden is comparatively unscathed economically (its unemployment is up two points, while in most Western countries, including Australia it is doubling or worse). Nor is it suffering any more in terms of Coronavirus fatalities: 175 per million, compared to the UK's 255; France, 319; Spain, 464; Belgium, 540; Italy, 408; The Netherlands, 229, all suffering from lockdowns and entering full-blown economic depression. Putting things in perspective In a typical year in Sweden, 9 people per thousand die from all causes. So far this year, less than 2 in 10,000 have died with Coronavirus: Less than 2% of all the deaths likely to occur...
France has now suffered five nights of riots involving thousands, in twenty cities. It shows no signs of dying down. https://www.france24.com/en/20200420-police-and-residents-clash-over-heavy-handed-lockdown-enforcement-in-paris-suburbs This comes on top of the country's worst economic depression since 1929. The super-rich are doing well out of this, as usual.
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