Overheated to keep us scared and under control, which at least 80% of the population seems to want; "emotional immaturity" reigns supreme.

Too many people now need to have a bucket of cold water thrown over them to cool them down - starting with Scott Morrison and the state premiers.

This is an excellent article of the sort sneered at by the overheated Marxists among us, but one that should be welcomed by the rest of us, who are sick and tired of knee-jerking, fear mongering and hyperbole.

starting with Scott Morrison and the state premiers.
ttbn,
I'd be more inclined to start with the average Bogan voters !

individual,

Them too. But it's easier to start at the top, and less water is used.

No, I've never wondered about all that power! Just how to use it without it becoming an open door to those who harvest our data then spam the system to death with targeted messages. That are aimed at all our predilections/peccadilloes!

And the reason why companies like Google, Facebook and others, are as rich and powerful as they now are. Personally, I'd like a phone that one could use as a fit for purpose, Phone! Albeit, I find the speaker application a blessing!
Alan B.

Hyperbole and State Premiers, ttbn? I guess you have been in hibernation not to have seen those terrible images coming from the USA and India, as systems were overwhelmed all over the joint and cadavers were buried in mass graves, in scenes probably not seen since the plague swept through Europe!

Personally, prefer the borders remain closed until we're all vaccinated.

And a lot of the perceived reluctance would disappear if all of us were issued with that anticoagulant nasal spray a few weeks in advance of the jab. Particularly those with a known disposition to make blood clots

And as easy as, giving we are talking about long approved, but out of patent medication. Which means it could be manufactured locally! By anyone, including government agencies or appointed contractors, with the necessary expertise!

And none would bellyache about it, given, if used as instructed? Also gives some antiviral cover against covid-19?

Would also like the new antiviral that is given as an injection to already sick people on death row, which has been proven to kill 99.99% of all coronaviruses, including the common cold. And both therapeutics could be used to assist viable, island-based quarantine?

I see a very long term highly profitable, worldwide market for all the above, if only we had a PM with a science/medical background!

In any event, given we start making both therapeutics, he could come into his own as a marking guru, to sell surplus production to the eagerly waiting world.

Until then and allowing sanity to finally prevail, prefer our closed borders policy.

And given that remains? All those Aussies holidaying abroad, could as they now do, holiday at home! And overload the local tourism industry with new, homegrown demand. Given our locals were a bigger market as overseas tourists than those foreigners coming here!

Moreover, if retraining is to be successful, then the Universities could undertake most of it and survive on the extra income that would generate for them as a fit for purpose, combined UNI/TAFE system! And where international research collaboration, could be conducted online, as zoom/teleconferencing
Alan B.

It's the KGB's Cold War Cultural Marxism plan to destroy Australia with Cultural Marxism from within.

1, Demoralisation:- Train young people to replace their formally high moral standards with low moral standards. Or replace Traditional Christianity with the "Sexual Revolution" sex, drugs, rock & roll.

2, Destabilisation:- Train young people to be unfair, unreasonable, irrational, illogical & knee-jerk emotionally react instead.

3, Crisis:- Australia has been in a state of crisis or becoming a failing or failed state or banana republic for about two decades.

4, Normalisation:- Which is when Xi Jinping's troops arrive to restore law & order.

Which is what the Labor-Green Socialist Alliance with Communist China has been working patiently towards for about 100 years.