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Each of the issues is now its own little culture war within the larger culture war. At the head of this queue is lockdown itself. One can reasonably argue that lockdowns generate more economic and human costs than benefits, including the deaths they cause. They are at least doing us a service in Public Opinion Of The War the case if not in the way they sometimes argue it. Fortunately, the Victorian government stuck to its guns and was conservative in scaling down the lockdown as business ramped up the vitriol. This continued until it became unviable — which it did for the Victorian government in its second wave.

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Having eschewed mandated masks even on public transport, Public Opinion Of The War Victorian government then went all in and mandated mask-wearing in deserted parks. This pattern is repeated again and again. Masks are made into a civil liberties issue rather than a temporary public health safety measure. Google and Apple have good technology for tracing contacts whilst protecting privacy. Instead, the federal government spends millions on an energy-hungry but useless app. They then Opinikn it voluntary. We should use Apple and Google technology and mandate strict privacy protections including deletion of all data after say 45 days as a Oponion of taking public transport or eating in a restaurant. Meanwhile, we give our data away for half a cent in the dollar to Fly-Buys or to Facebook to chat with our friends.

Movement across state borders has been Public Opinion Of The War by the same kind of binary thinking. Lockdowns have been imposed by every state and federal government at great cost. But with the second wave in full swing in Victoria, the PM pled for open state borders in the name of federation and the economy. Yet to open to an infected state would be to put all the costs of the previous lockdown at naught. Still, this is no more absurd than the equal and opposite response of state governments since, which has been to close their borders to other states even when they have similar COVID spreads to themselves.

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