The NSW Government’s ‘gold standard’ in COVID management  has soured into a more tarnished puce colour, with Premier Gladys  Berejiklian’s reluctance to shut down Sydney a week earlier, resulting  in a more protracted lockdown than would otherwise have been required.

Aside  from the extra billions of dollars it will cost the NSW economy, it  took a full 24 hours before Berejiklian could even mention the word that  shall not be mentioned: LOCKDOWN – a dastardly word that fellow  Liberals were ridiculing just the day before the lockdown was announced,  and suggesting it was something only those lunatic states run by the Labor Party would think about doing.

But we are all lockdowners now. And it’s a reflection of the national ‘debts and deficits’  argument: Liberal Party lockdowns, good; Labor Party lockdowns, bad. It’s beyond belief that conservative politics in Australia can be so  infantile.

FULL POST: https://newpolitics.com.au/2021/07/03/the-lockdown 

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