23 June

It seems to me the common story people in Australia would tell about the pandemic is ‘we locked down for 2 years, then we opened up to live with the virus’. The ABS is here to help. If you look at all of the lockdowns in those 2 years, they’re vastly outnumbered, overwhelmingly, by times where we weren’t locked down. Our Covid story is backwards, it’s political spin. Here’s the real story. We spent 2 years controlling the virus, in the way we’ve controlled viruses for several hundred years. Our lives were pretty free. Then we let it control us. And that’s our life right now. We’re controlled by Covid, and have lost all control over it. All because of one political belief, that public health measures restrict our freedom. Imagine, that people came to believe that.