Covid-19 lockdowns changed society with mandates and public handouts [see photo]. The mandates on masks, vaccines, homeschooling, speech, etc has "groomed" these compliant citizens to embrace a new social order that is based on collectives not individuals. The public handouts to people who lost their jobs, businesses, and access to paid work has engineered a population that is more and more dependent upon government services and payments.
Covid-19 lockdowns in Victoria [Australia] were noted around the globe as some of the most inhuman restrictions on citizens since the middle of last Century. The Dan Andrews led Government botched a hotel quarantine scheme that led [directly and indirectly] to more than 600 covid-19 deaths. This was just one example of how a Dan Andrews led government is incompetent, runs a shady contract allocation process [jobs for mates], and is never held to account by the local media nor the judiciary in the State of Victoria. And yet... last night the Dan Andrews Government was re-elected to a third four year term. I can only guess that this means the voters of Victoria are happy to return a government that is wasteful, disrespectful to citizens, and less than fully competent in the art of public administration.
Covid-19 lockdowns have shifted the societal power base towards a system of centralised control over every aspect of life. If you are not part of the favoured collective/clique/cult then you are a pariah. Covid-19 measures were deployed to subjugate individual thoughts, habits, and beliefs and this governmental strategy effectively broke our liberal societies.
Richard.
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