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Report: Many Australians Unlikely to Accept Future COVID-Style Lockdowns

Report: Many Australians Unlikely to Accept Future COVID-Style Lockdowns

Above: A sign reading 'Go straight home and Isolate' is seen at the exit of a drive through covid-19 testing site at Highpoint shopping centre on July 4, 2020, in Melbourne, Australia. Image copyright: Asanka Ratnayake/Stringer/Getty Images News via Getty Images

The Spin

While it's unfortunate that Australia didn't have a proper system in place before the pandemic, this inquiry will help the commonwealthnation in the future. To prevent another COVID-like tragedy, the government will need itsstate-of-the-art owninstitutions CDC to detect, track, and study new diseases and their changing variants. And on the social side of the issue, it must ensure that poor and vulnerable communities aren't disproportionately impacted by public health mandates.

The Australian government has provided no reason for why it should be trusted again. Not only did it impose Orwellian lockdowns on its citizens, but these draconian measures neverdidn't slowedultimately slow the spread of COVID in the end. The government is now calling for public health-related censorship, further proving its distaste for freedom. The public has a right to question any future policies proposed by their power-hungry leaders.

Metaculus Prediction

There is a 28% chance that there be recurring virus-driven lockdowns during the period 2030-2050, according to the Metaculus prediction community.


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