Australia’s coronavirus ‘dictator’ enforces a drastic lockdown. He’s still popular.

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Melbourne restrictions imposed by Victorian state leader Daniel Andrews are among the most stringent pandemic prevention measures anywhere.

In Melbourne, public life has essentially come to a halt. Schools are shuttered. Roads are empty. The only shops open are gas stations, supermarkets and drugstores.People who don’t work in an essential industry are allowed to leave their houses only for two hours’ exercise a day, or to buy food, care for others or seek medical attention. Soldiers go door-to-door checking that infected people are in isolation.

But health experts — even those who want the novel coronavirus eliminated from Australia, something no large country has achieved — worry that Andrews may have gone too far to control a disease that has killed a similar number of people in Melbourne as the District of Columbia, which has one-eighth of the Australian city’s population and a death toll of 616.

When news of the protest was posted on social media an hour in advance, police swamped the area with officers on horseback and others wielding batons and thick plastic shields. Nick Baker, a 43-year-old Melbourne resident and aviation-industry worker, said he supports the lockdown but is struggling with the lack of physical contact with friends or family, apart from his wife, Janis.The couple planned a vacation to Las Vegas last month for her 40th birthday. Australia has banned most foreign travel, and the Bakers’ backup plan, a trip along Victoria’s scenic Great Ocean Road, is now illegal.

 

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Read the splendid and the vile. Churchill was popular during the blitz cuz he told the truth and acted on it.

LOL - the WaPo trying to do some PR for Joe Hiden, because this upcoming election is between LIBERTY & LOCKDOWNS! QAnon

No he's not. A recent poll suggests he'd lose an election massively if held tomorrow. He's roundly despised.

Bullshit

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