That’s not what I asked you, though.
What I find with politicians is that 99 percent of the time they will say the things they believe got them elected, that they never delivered on, and there’s that one percent where they reveal their true character. Consider that.
I agree that’s true of a lot of politicians and Morrison is far from perfect.
But I do believe he’s sincere in being opposed to lockdowns. He’s been put through political hell by the predominantly left wing media in Australia for daring to go against their view that people like Daniel Andrews and Mark McGowan have kept everybody safe.
It has cost him massively politically to go against that narrative.
Being conciliatory more recently does seem to be working as well - Andrews is becoming very slightly more reasonable than he was since he can no longer as easily score points against the Prime Minister.
If Morrison had actually been in charge, this country would have had far, far fewer lockdowns unless COVID had got out of control. I’ve not sure what he would have done in reponse to hundreds of thousands of cases and thousands of deaths. But if the numbers had stayed low, I really do believe that if he was calling the shots, we’d be pretty close to normal at this point - we might be wearing masks and not be able to gather in crowds of thousands but that would be about it. We might have had two of the six lockdowns we’ve had in my state and they would have lasted weeks not months. And much more effort would have been made to keep as many businesses as possible functioning, rather than shutting nearly everything down.