Sky news host Chris Kenny says the scale of the remedy to COVID-19 is out of all proportion to the scope of the problem, yet people are supporting the lockdowns because state leaders have dramatised the threat of the virus.
Mr Kenny said Victoria has not had thousands in hospital at any point during the virus, but some Victorians were supporting the lockdown and curfew because the threat of COVID was exaggerated by the state's leaders. “It is hard to believe, frankly, how meekly most people seem to be accepting this,” he said. “The curfew and stage four lockdowns were probably unnecessary as professor Peter Collignon suggested on this program last week".
Mr Kenny said South Australia has just one active case. Yet a health department survey in the state revealed South Australians were worried about a second wave of the virus coming into the state, Mr Kenny said. “People, we have to get a grip,” he said. “This virus will be with us for a long while. "We are hurting each other, dividing the nation, hurting ourselves. “We need to learn how to live with COVID-19, while being sensible about minimising its spread and protecting the vulnerable.
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