11 January

The debates about lockdown or not to lockdown. Firstly, there is no such thing as ‘lockdown’, it’s not a public health concept. And notice that when somewhere won’t use strong restrictions, like NSW, that only works if they at the same time introduce hundreds of micro-restrictions to control our activity. Like in the pic. So it’s not the case that some places ‘lock down’, and some don’t. Everybody locks down activity, you either do it simply by stopping most at once, or you introduce hundreds of small controls into everyday life instead. It’s a false binary. And the lots of smaller restrictions approach is also hugely expensive, complex to do and an enormous amount of work to implement.