With you Steele, 100+++%

Ditto !

Congratulations mhaze, you were right. I was also a member of that group, which had some stellar members. But the dopes that run most of the world were too scared to follow the facts where they led. And now you have some of our fellow commenters trying to defend the indefensible. Victoria, the most heavily locked-down state, did no better than anywhere else, and that is just counting COVID deaths. https://www.health.gov.au/health-alerts/covid-19/case-numbers-and-statistics. And then there are the victims of lock down. The suicides, the missed diagnoses, people reduced to poverty who can't now afford proper care. Plus we couldn't afford to lock down like that again - the cost didn't justify the benefits, and paying it has destroyed other people's lives and health.

'Tens of thousands of lives' were saved by totalitarian lockdowns?

What a "blithering stupid" and unsubstantiated claim by one of the blithering stupid dupes who, as I said, live their lives in ignorance thanks, to the Lying Left media, as well as prostrating themselves before increasingly totalitarian governments.

Dear Graham,

Why on earth are you talking about facts when you and mhaze studiously ignore them?

Suicide rates in Victoria fell markedly during the lockdowns and have not dramatically risen afterwards.

Many businesses which normally would have failed due the the standard churn were instead supported to continue.

As of October the 2nd the overall covid death toll in your poster country of Sweden is current triple that of Australia. The US suffered 6 times our rate.

mhaze was not right then and he isn't right now. In fact the only thing right about the both of you unfortunately is your ideologies.

Sorry Graham, we did better than elsewhere, some of it via stupid blind luck and some of it due to our location and climate. Not assisted by the infected passengers on the Princess, being allowed to leave while still infectious. Like the keystone cops' version, of border control.

Others saying it was no more than a mild flu and making the economy more important than lives. We didn't have the mass graves of NY.

But none know what internal damage this thing does even in its mildest form, or how many years it may shave off of your normal life expectancy.

If blockheads like ttbn had their way, it would have been, let her rip, Boris. As it was, our health service was pressed way past its limits and the cost of hospital health care/Medicare has never been higher.

You cannot go past one fundamental truth, to have a healthy economy we need a healthy populace. One doesn't have one without the other.

Now, we can expect a spike from the footy finals, the Melbourne Cup and so on. And even more ambulance ramping at our hospitals!

I'm glad your Mum passed before all this and didn't have to see your current undisguised attitude to the elderly vulnerable, i.e., the people who built this country. I believe, she would have been shamed.
Alan B.