The "they" of course are the Australian political class: many of whom want you to hand over more power to them via a politicians' republic. After what they have done over the past two years, the scant regard they have shown citizens, do you really want to give them any more power when the next referendum on a republic comes around? Do you want more "galloping authoritarianism"?

The less the government is involved in our lives, the better off we are.

Austrians for Science and Freedom!? The debate is over, the lockdowns didn't work!

Of course, they didn't work! Because non-compliant idiots refused to comply with health orders! And that required even stronger measures to compel compliance! Even to the chagrin of cage rattling drug dealers and the criminal element in our midst.

Pregnant mums should be the first in the queue. If only to protect the unborn, who have absolutely no natural uninherited resistance.

Let's be clear, this virus has killed more people than two world wars!

The Spanish epidemic with its horrific death toll many of whom were health professionals, was started by a single Asymptomatic Chinese tourist.

If science was our guide, and not risibly ridiculous pernicious propaganda, then we would have Island quarantine stations, mandatory vaccinations/boosters and vaccine passports, mandatory masks even now, restricted travel and curfews.

If we can eliminate this virus and we can! Then our personal freedom could be restored in full.

If young people were the preferred target of this virus? We wouldn't even be having this conversation!

Just because old people are old, just doesn't mean they have nothing left to contribute! Even in the face of, full of themselves, walking gonads, young, narcissistic, supercity complexes!

They might astound with world changing, science-based contributions. Put energy even the poorest can afford on the table and with that get the economy and manufacture up off the floor and producing at the max!

Take mankind to the literal stars.

And I am not talking about those poor souls in God's waiting rooms/nursing homes! But those with (wasted) still active minds and still in their own homes.
Alan B.

I don't know what universe you were living in Ramesh, but from where I am sitting, the lockdowns in Victoria were very effective. You only have to look at how huge the numbers of daily infections are now, without lockdowns, compared with the low numbers in the early days of the virus when we had effective lockdowns.
David

" Lockdowns did not work"

If only we'd had some way of knowing it at the time...
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=9129#301593

Lockdowns did not work, but there will be no convincing those who live their lives through the Lying Left media. Finding the truth entails a lot of reading, and taking notice of people like Ramesh, whom the average poster would never have heard of. He is one of the knowledgeable people the Lying Left media refuses to give a voice to. He is well known and respected in intelligent circles, and I am pleased to see him on Online Opinion. Some of you will learn a lot from him if you open your minds.

What a blitheringly stupid article.

Rolling out the Nazis in the first paragraph certainly set the tone early and it went downhill from there.

Of course lockdowns worked, amazingly well in the case of Australia and tens of thousands of lives were saved as a result.

We didn't have the 800 people per day dying like what happened in NYC, filling morgues across the city.

The lack of government involvement was the largest single lament of so many on the ground in that country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdpSgEQKVNE

We should be extremely grateful for what our governments did in Australia. Businesses and people were supported, lockdowns prevented Delta running rampant and brought time until the vast majority of us were vaccinated and able to face Covid infections.

Yet here we are giving breathing space to articles like this. Moreover the vapid sniping of people like mhaze pissing over the effort that Australians put in to keep themselves, their families and there fellow Australians safe.

It is shameful.