Lockdowns Do Not Work

They work brilliantly for Public servants, none of them had to tighten their belts ! On the contrary, their savings increased substantially.

6,000 employers found to be wroughting Jobkeeper, putting down non existent employees, people in jail, even dead people. How many prosecutions from the 6,000....6 repeat 6. Those 6 mush have been whoppers. Billions wasted.

Luxury, cash handouts to Aged Pensioners, mostly salted away in already bloated bank accounts. Billions more wasted

Paul1405,

The LPN governments are always about creating opportunities for the rich to get richer.

"Here, it's tax payers' money. Take it, you can have as much as you want, there's more where that came from, go on take it."

It's all about sharing the taxpayers' money around because some of it will come back as political donations to the LNP.

I think it is dishonest and exploitative. Taxpayers' money is being channeled from the lower classes to the upper classes to end up back in the pockets of politicians. It's a disgrace!

LNP Job Seeker is for those in need. The fact that there are 6000 shonks tells us that there are 6000 too many Labor voting bureaudroids who facilitate the rorts to make the conservative Govt look bad. Are you a bureaudroid Paul ?

Thought this needed reposting here.

Back on the 19th of December in a post directed to Graham I said:
“This thing is off and running and despite bans on gatherings of more than 8 people and other measures Sweden's limp-wristed approach will see its likely death toll over 10,000 by the end of January unless it steps up considerably.”
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=9343#314989

Back then the toll was 8,690.

It is now 11,591 and we are not quite at the end of January. So my predictions have unfortunately been significantly surpassed.

I also said “However I am confident that Denmark will get on top of this before Sweden and within a couple of weeks it will have an infection rate half that.”

The infection rate at the time in Denmark was 611. It is now 121. It managed an 80% drop compared to Sweden's 54%.

Lockdowns do work and we should be grateful we have State leadership which has served us so well during this pandemic.

Unfortunately our Federal leader was in July saying things like: “the best protection against the virus is to live with the virus, to live alongside the virus and to open up your economy”.

Things could have been a lot worse.

Steele,

Thou hast hit the wood fastener squarely in the appropriate place.