Dan Andrews, Premier of Australia’s second largest state, just announced that his government will switch from “aiming for zero” to “keeping cases as low as possible.”
And by “as low as possible” he means well below the birthrate.
The change in messaging (not policy) isn’t any surprise given that there were 86 cases yesterday, and double digit growth over the past week. Nationwide, daily cases are twice what they were during the last outbreak a year ago and it is clearly uncontainable.
Rather than adjust to reality, the unflappable premier simply adjusted reality to suit the continued lockdown policy. He’ll be announcing totally unrealistic targets (“won’t be in the hundreds”), which is even lower than Victoria’s birthrate of over 200 per day. In case you are numerically challenged, that means forever.
If he gets his way, Victoria will be in lockdown well after retires.
Somehow, he’s selling this absurdity to the Victorian public as “the roadmap out of Covid” rather than the highway to serfdom.
We’d like to say the guy’s completely lost it, but the mainstream media and general public are lapping it up — or possibly just taking it lying down. Dictator Dan is
Parliament is suspended. Protests have been outlawed. The head of a political party was arrested for incitement (pre-crime).
And now Victoria will get thrown a bone of maybe an extra hour of exercise per day.
RIP democracy.
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