Posted on 11/28/2020 12:29:28 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
"It was pretty grim. There was a lot of sadness in people's eyes. A lot of fear of the unknown."
Matt Lanigan is describing life on Melbourne's Chapel St during the city's recent four-month lockdown.
"The streets were completely deserted. It was like something out of [post-apocalyptic film] Mad Max," says Mr Lanigan, who owns cafe Lucky Penny on the iconic shopping strip.
Melbourne first went into lockdown in March, but its second, which began in July after a fresh Covid outbreak, was a bigger blow. That lockdown went on to become one of the longest and strictest in the world.
"It was brutal," Mr Lanigan says of trying to keep his business afloat. "It was like I was in a boxing match and I just got knocked to the floor. For a moment there, I felt like maybe it wasn't worth getting up."
But things are slowly turning around. On Friday, Melbourne and the state of Victoria achieved one measure of "elimination" of the virus - 28 consecutive days with no new infections. After seeing daily cases soar above 700 in July and August, the city is seen as an example for the rest of the world on how to handle a second outbreak.
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Prevention that is far worse than the dsease.
Unless the demographics of the population was overwhelmingly 65+ (high risk group for COVID-19), a lockdown was completely unnecessary.
So they consider one of the longest and strictest lockdowns in the world as an example for the rest of the world to follow? Who other than Jeff Bezos and the Chinese would think that was a good idea?
Just Phase One of the extermination program.
Unless the demographics of the population was overwhelmingly 65+ (high risk group for COVID-19), a lockdown was completely unnecessary.
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A society with that demographic would be on its way to death even without the virus.
There are no small businesses that can survive repeated month-long shutdowns. And that is the plan.
The extermination of the Kulaks.
We were in Melbourne last September. The CBD looked like Hong Kong!
That’s how I felt when I was in Sydney, felt more like being in Beijing.
State Government has too much power imo:
This was published 6 months ago
‘More important than ever’: Victoria backs China’s infrastructure push
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