Melbourne, Australia: World’s longest Covid lockdown loosens as tyrannical politician is shamed by rival

Residents of Melbourne, Australia just gained a little bit of freedom back after enduring the longest Covid lockdown of any city in the world: 262 days, edging out London and Buenos Aires for the dubious title. According to Anthony Piovesan and Matt Young of the Murdoch empire’s news.com.au:

Melbourne has erupted with cheers as the world’s longest lockdown was officially lifted overnight.
Victoria’s sixth coronavirus lockdown was finally lifted at 11.59pm on Thursday after 262 days of harsh Covid-19 measures since the pandemic hit.
The CBD erupted and cheers and applause could be heard echoing through the city as the clock struck midnight, with residents clapping from balconies and shouting “freedom”.
“They can hear yelling from surrounding balconies like it was New Years,” ABC reporter Amy Gray noted.

I swear this feeling is unreal 😭😭😭❤️ #melbourne #melbournelockdown pic.twitter.com/2ajo3nKpeD — uday. (@Control_Udayy) October 21, 2021

« Anti-gun actor Alec Baldwin shot a woman to death | An execrable 'correction' from the Associated Press » American Thinker on MeWe| Print| Email October 22, 2021 World’s longest Covid lockdown loosens as tyrannical politician is shamed by rival By Thomas Lifson Residents of Melbourne, Australia just gained a little bit of freedom back after enduring the longest Covid lockdown of any city in the world: 262 days, edging out London and Buenos Aires for the dubious title. According to Anthony Piovesan and Matt Young of the Murdoch empire’s news.com.au:

Melbourne has erupted with cheers as the world’s longest lockdown was officially lifted overnight.

Victoria’s sixth coronavirus lockdown was finally lifted at 11.59pm on Thursday after 262 days of harsh Covid-19 measures.

The CBD erupted and cheers and applause could be heard echoing through the city as the clock struck midnight, with residents clapping from balconies and shouting “freedom”.

Under the yoke of Premier Daniel Andrews of the State of Victoria, a Labor Party progressive, Melburnians have suffered absurd limitations on their personal freedoms. When large scale demonstrations against the lockdowns emerged, they were brutally repressed by police. In Australia, police forces are run by each of the states, and under Andrews, police fired rubber bullets into crowds and assaulted individual protesters.

Andrews saw the neighboring rival state of New South Wales and its capital city Sydney celebrate “freedom day” October 10th, when a new premier took office there. (Former premier Gladys Berejiklian resigned after it became known that she was under investigation for corruption, and was replaced by Dominic Perrottet, both of them of the Liberal Party, which is the largest conservative party in Australia.)

Before we ridicule Australia as a whole, we have to remember that ONLY in the states of Victoria and New South Wales did we have these onerous lockdowns.

It is important to note that not all of Australia’s states have gone to extremes in responding to Covid, as many American commentators have assumed. The states of Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and Queensland do not have this lockdown policy.

Australia’s version of federalism is in some ways more robust than America’s.

The Premier of Victoria, Andrews saw the political writing on the Wall so to speak. That’s why he sort of “ended” the lockdown a week earlier than planned.

I think he saw the neighboring rival state of New South Wales and its capital city Sydney celebrate “freedom day” October 10th, when a new premier took office there. (Former premier Gladys Berejiklian ( Ms. Lockdown herself) resigned after it became known that she was under investigation for corruption, and was replaced by Dominic Perrottet, both of them of the Liberal Party, which ( despite its name, is the largest conservative party in Australia.).

Thanks God Australia still has a federalist and democratic system.

I can’t even imagine what Australia would be like under a Chinese style government.

RE: They’re still a long way from being free of their tyrannical rulers. Nothing to cheer about yet.

Yep, you’re right.

Commentator Bill Muhlenberg observed in his column:

https://billmuehlenberg.com/2021/10/22/melbourne-lockdown-horror-no-freedom-here/

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Melbourne, relaxed a few restrictions – somewhat. It would be ludicrous to compare this with what happened in NSW a few weeks ago. There they really could celebrate ‘Freedom Day’ under the very strong leadership of Dominic Perrottet. But no such luck here. (snip)

The truth is, Victorians are STILL in their sixth lockdown! Yes, we they had a minor reprieve, but madness still prevails. They still have these ludicrous restrictions: a 25km travel limit; retail is still closed; schools are still mostly closed; and so on. Um, that is NOT freedom by any stretch of the imagination.

The very fact that Chairman Andrews has made any moves away from lockdown lunacy here is really due to Perrottet: he has shamed Andrews into action. Sydney and NSW are leading the nation in how to proceed, leaving states like Victoria in the dust. So Andrews has been forced to act – at least a little bit – in order not to look like the buffoon that he has been.

He’s busily driving out the people who wouldn’t want to vote for him.

It’s called “The Curley Effect”

https://www.nber.org/papers/w8942

James Michael Curley, a four-time mayor of Boston, used wasteful redistribution to his poor Irish constituents and incendiary rhetoric to encourage richer citizens to emigrate from Boston, thereby shaping the electorate in his favor. Boston as a consequence stagnated, but Curley kept winning elections. We present a model of the Curley effect, in which inefficient redistributive policies are sought not by interest groups protecting their rents, but by incumbent politicians trying to shape the electorate through emigration of their opponents or reinforcement of class identities. The model sheds light on ethnic politics in the United States and abroad, as well as on class politics in many countries including Britain.

“You get what you vote for ....
Then why did I suffer through eight years of Obama?”

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Touche! Good come back...

Sort of like when doofuses say “you get what you pay for”. My response, “Then why did the shine rub off the Rolex I just paid some guy $10,000 for? I thought you get what you pay for, and I paid a lot of money for a Rolex, but it ended up being a fake.”

Truthfully, “You pay for what you get”, not “You get what you pay for”. Sometimes you really do not get what you “thought” you paid for.”

That snake oil salesperson(gender inclusive) will tell you that if you pay a big price you gonna get good stuff. Yeah right.

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