![]() Lockdowns don’t destroy the virus but they do destroy people’s livelihoods and people’s lives. It has been proven that masks make no significant difference in stopping the spread of COVID-19. “It’s time we stopped spreading fear and acknowledge some facts. That is the game changer.” - Scott Morrison, declining to do any heavy lifting himself on climate change, and all after poo-poo-ing the virtues of high-tech electric cars before the last election. “World history teaches one thing, technology changes everything. I am trying to think of a devastating comeback, too. All they care about is drinking and eating.” Do you think Australia is demanding to work? No one cares, they just want to get bombed on their couch and put a shish kabob on the grill. When you tell them not to work they go ‘all right’. “Australians are simple people, all they want to do is get drunk and grill. People asking why Australians aren’t angry, they’re perpetually lazy, descendants of criminals.”Īh, but even then he was just warming up, going on to note that, with a lot of Australian friends, he knows our nature well, and lockdown fits right in with the way we want to live in the first place. The government has been good to Australia. “But Australians like that, they like the government, they trust the government. “Australia has like 12 cases and they’re literally chaining people,” he said. The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd sent me an account this week of a stand-up comic from her fair city, Tim Dillon, riffing on how we are coping with COVID. That is another area where we need the government to take the lead. Mangan: Until government mandates it, I would respect that decision by her. Everyone is a winner.įitz: Would you be able to mandate that everyone in your restaurant be vaccinated? What if one of your sous-chefs says no, and you can’t make me? I suspect she’s right. It brings hospitality and tourism back, gets people in those industries back to work, helps with the mental health of people in lockdown. ![]() ![]() Mangan: Absolutely, and the sooner the better! What is the point of being double vaccinated if we don’t have any freedoms. we are still going!įitz: Do you believe in vaccine passports so that those of us who are jabbed can come and spend our money with you and yours and get everyone back to work? ![]() Every day I walk down an empty George Street, into an empty lobby that has 600 empty hotel rooms above me. The closest was the GFC, and this is 50 times worse. ![]()
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