It adds up all right; property values are in afterburner mode, that makes for happy investors. Rents are falling, that makes for happy poor people.
Politicians are becoming Putin look alikes, untouchable. EG NSW Premier.
No, there are no problems with COVID lockdowns.

Dan

Just as so many people predicted! This mass stupidity allowed corrupt politicians to oppress us, ruin us and all for virtue signaling!
Where is the idiot who hides his name and calls himself Steel Redux? Someone who banged on about how Sweden was so stupid, turns out they had it right! How Hunchback Andrews of Victoria wasn't a stupid sociopath who reveled in cruelty but was a "Dear Leader", almost like a Father to little Steelie.
I am only more amazed by all the sheep that have allowed themselves to be treated like animals and shorn and slaughtered. When will this madness end?

Hi Galen,

"I don’t understand why genuine questions are being put down as conspiracy related.
When did Google, Facebook and unqualified medical personnel advising governments become experts on pandemic Covid-19 information?
Who are these new experts?
It just doesn’t add up"

The fact that it doesn't add up should tell you something in itself.
- That's your bullcrap meter going off.
And what its telling you is that there are other forces at work.
Other agendas and that things are not what they seem.

Now as to what those agendas are well I won't speculate.

All, it’s good to see I am not alone.

It makes one wonder how many in the general population are in agreement with my sentiments?

I have been watching and listening and I fear it does not bode well re government over reach. What’s next?

Cheers, Galen

Dear Galen,

You wrote: “Additionally, Oz and US stats no longer include deaths from annual flu, TB, and a myriad of other fatal diseases. They are all now classed as Covid-19 deaths?”

That is utterly untrue so why on earth do you claim it?

Here is the Australian Report including Flu deaths for the 2020 season which had only claimed 37 lives.

“In the year to the end of the 2020 season, of the 21,266 notifications of laboratory confirmed influenza, 37 (0.17%) laboratory-confirmed influenzaassociated deaths were notified to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS), the lowest rate reported in the last five years.”

There is no doubt that the Covid year will have impacted reporting to a degree but the social distancing measures have had an enormous moderating effect on infections.

The next reporting period starts in April this year.

Dear JBowyer,

What deeply degenerated part of your brain allows you to look at the Swedish figures and in any way claim they “had it right”?

Here are the figures: http://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

Their second wave was a good deal worse than the first claiming around 7,000 and 5,000 deaths respectively and there is every indication they are about to enter a third wave. This in a population not much bigger than NSW.

Even the King of the country has said its approach had failed. Yet there you are, a little ideological keyboard warrior ignoring the bleeding obvious because it might fray your politics a bit.

Can I invite you to stop being pathetic just for a little bit.

SteeleRedux,
That's Sweden, what about the rest of the World ? Do you have any figures as to how much pollution has been curbed due to COVID-19.