Victoria, with the most draconian efforts in making people's lives a misery, has proved that lockdowns are a load of old bollocks, inflicted because politicians and public servants pretending to be doctors cannot tell their own arses from their elbows. Lockdowns have turned out to be worse than the complaint for the majority of people. We can't be sure that the economy will ever recover from the actions of idiotic, power-crazed politicians who keep jabbering that we 'have to listen to the experts', when the experts are the real problem. They continue to get their big bucks, while their 'expertise' is impoverishing the country and workers.

After the next election, there should not be one currently serving politician left in office - particularly the arch-idiot Prime Minister. But Australians have been surrendering their rights and lives to politicians and bureaucrats for so long now that they will keep rewarding the morons, and Australian politicians will continue to be a bigger threat to us than the virus and its source, the Chinese, will ever be.

The author makes quite a few valid observations. Perhaps as well as publicising the number of deaths due to the virus, the authorities should also be publicising the number of deaths due to suicide. I suggest that we are ignoring the latter which comprise a majority of younger ones while we concentrate on reducing the former which comprise mainly older people. Unfortunately I belong to the former.
David

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-deaths-per-million-7-day-average?country=~SWE

No lockdown, quarantine, or isolation.

Yeah David, the draconian lockdowns have and will be shown to be the biggest failure in our history. I suspect very strongly that far more deaths are going to result from this madness. There are to many 'experts' enjoying this and we have been taken for tragic ride. Thanks for taking the time for writing something other than the panic porn that has led to millions giving up basic rights and needs due to fear mongers. Our State Premiers and Health bureaucrats have been among the worse.

So this is where all the ratbags hang out ?

Get a grip. Victoria is suffering around seven hundred new cases of this virus each day. Of course, that is pretty small beer, compared to the US's sixty thousand each day, and it's certainly more manageable, given strong efforts to trace and track compared to the US's 'bugger it' approach (except for the valiant efforts of Fauci and Birx), but there are still people dying from this virus in Victoria every day, thanks to idiots flouting the lockdown - again, nothing like the 1100-1200 each day in the US, but still 12-15 loved ones.

So of course, aim for maximum suppression. I get the impression that posters here wouldn't give a toss if the virus was free-ranging, 'let it rip', let it infect as many as possible because then we can move towards herd immunity. 'We're safe in our bunkers'. And anyway, any lockdowns affect the economy.

As if - dumb-arses - 'letting it rip' won't affect the economy - but in an unplanned, more chaotic way ? ? How old are some of you blokes - mentally, I mean ? Six ? Eight ? Half-wits always over-estimate the benefits of their preferred option, and under-estimate its costs or deny them entirely. Dumb-arse bank robbers do that all the time. Young children have stupid accidents because of that way of wishful thinking.

No, we're in for a long haul. No lockdown would mean a rampant epidemic until an effective vaccine is found, if ever. No doubt all you blokes are safely locked away from the world in your bunkers, stocked up with just enough toilet paper and baked beans (a deadly combination) for a few years. See you when this is over - sooner if we have an effective lockdown. Don't worry, you'll have something else to whinge about by then.

Joe

Already a rise in cases needing Intensive Care Units (ICU) beds.

Already increased number of Doctors/Nurses/Carers getting COVID.

By late September saturation of ICU beds with COVID and all other disease/accident cases:

- All looked after by the declining number of Doctors/Nurses/Carers.

- Someone will need to make the decisions on which 60+ year old patients SHOULD DIE TO KEEP ICU BEDS AVAILABLE FOR NON-COVID CASES.