As an Australian, as a Melbournian, barely coming out of the longest lockdown in the world, this shit makes me SO angry.
We spent 2020 AND 2021 in near total lockdown, 18 solid months with only a tiny handful of reductions. And the entire time we were watching the US, and the UK, and many other places besides, in absolute horror.
Every day there was some new horrific news about the total catastrophe your governments were causing, the unimaginable toll it was taking. And we heard in particular Americans talking about “lockdown” as a thing that happened, as a thing that stopped... when at best all Trump could muster was the slightest pause.
It was utterly surreal in a city which ERADICATED covid. Literally we stayed locked in 2020 until every single last case was gone, and only then did we finally open the gates. And when the consistent embarrassment that is the Australian Federal government (vs the states who mostly responded reasonably and quickly with the exception of New South Wales) kept allowing cases to breach our quarantine, we locked down again.
And we eradicated it time and again, until Delta overwhelmed the system and we stayed locked down until nearly 100% of the population was vaccinated.
And you know what? Our economy did NOT collapse. Our lives did NOT end. We survived and we didn’t have large scale protests or anti-vax movement. 99% of people understood why we had to stay protected, and even after 18 months remained patient with the exhausting constant state of the world.
And when Omicron hit, just as we were finally recovering from Delta, the incompetent Federal government declared no more lockdowns, we had to get back to work for the economy. And the VAST majority of Australians told them to fuck off.
We went BACK into lockdown, without financial assistance, without orders, and without hesitation. Many of us are STILL in voluntary lockdown to this very day, to protect ourselves and our loved ones when the government refuses to. And in doing so, we saved our hospital system from being completely overrun, as case numbers soared into the tens of thousands a day.
And we’re still here, the economy still chugs along, and for the majority of us life continues as it has until now.
Understand that when they said they would sacrifice you for the sake of the economy, they meant profits. They meant millionaires and billionaires. They slaughtered MILLIONS of people so they wouldn’t lose any time exploiting and squeezing every last fucking cent they could out of the corpses. And they continue to do so as they allow Omicron to run rampant.
Fuck all of them. Fuck their systems. Fuck being politely murdered for the sake of their billions.
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