Another day, another COVID “hot spot” – and another round of state governments and bureaucrats slamming their iron fists down on the Panic Button. Call me a cynic, but I’m beginning to suspect that the Little Hitlers in our state capitals and health bureaucracies just about wet themselves at every opportunity to prolong the Pandemic Panic and the sweet, sweet absolute power that it gives them.
The latest “outbreak” is in Sydney’s ultra-affluent North Shore. The Harbourside Mansion set have so far managed to turn out fewer than 100 cases – most of them asymptomatic, or as we lay plebs might call it, “not sick” – despite carrying out record numbers of tests.
Nonetheless, with almost gleeful haste, the Health Fascists have brought their iron fists pounding down. All states and territories have slammed their borders shut to the whole of Greater Sydney. The Sydney-to-Hobart yacht race has been cancelled. NSW authorities are playing coy, but they seem all-too-keen to follow Britain’s lead and virtually cancel Christmas.
No COVID panic is complete, of course, without media-tart health bureaucrats hysterically trumpeting doom and gloom unabated.
NSW is on the brink of disaster as it faces major COVID-19 superspreader events on Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve, a leading epidemiologist has warned, urging an immediate lockdown across greater Sydney if the infection rate is not down on Monday.
“New Year’s Eve is going to be the mother of all super-spreading events because the people who get infected on Christmas Day are going to be at their absolute maximum infectiousness on New Year’s Eve,” said UNSW Professor Raina MacIntyre.
MacIntyre, it might be pointed out, is the same expert who, back in March, repeated warnings of 15 million infections and 150 000 deaths in Australia.
And, surprise, surprise, look what’s in their sights…
Those people will be at the peak of their infectiousness on Christmas Day, she added. If they have lunch or dinner with family and friends they will in turn infect 360 people. Six days later, on New Year’s Eve, those 360 people will be out partying at the peak of infectiousness.
“That 360 cases becomes over 1000 cases on New Year’s Eve, so by the end of the first week of January we could be looking at 3000 cases,” she warned.
The answer, she said, is to act quickly, extending the northern beaches lockdown across greater Sydney if the case numbers are the same or bigger on Monday.
“We could avoid that situation, and even have a prospect of being able to celebrate Christmas with our families as we all want to, if we do a short sharp lockdown with the same restrictions we’ve got in the northern beaches now but for greater Sydney,” she said.
That could be reviewed by Thursday. “Given the prospect of potentially having a massive epidemic by January, it’s better to be safe than sorry, that the businesses that might have to have a short, sharp shut down, it’ll be saving them in the longer term so we’re not facing a three month lockdown like Melbourne.”
The Australian
It’s all for your own good, don’t you see. This is going to hurt them worse than it hurts you, you ungrateful deplorable.
You’d almost be forgiven for thinking that the bureaucrats are actually enjoying all this.
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