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Originally Posted by Romulus

So what's the consequence of this? Kicking Ardern out of office would be a good start.

There's a flood of legal challenged going to start against Victoria and WA for their lockdowns.

There won't be any consequences because they'll simply say they were acting on the advice they were provided.

Originally Posted by ford71V8

Not quite, I think as long as you can pronounce it in a wordlike manner it counts.

Correct.

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

You can see it's starting to take its toll on people from a mental health perspective, there's low morale about from the non customer facing staff at work and they're struggling with the isolation.

People need to HTFU. A few months of lockdown is not even beginning to aproach the six years of spending half your nights in an air-raid shelter and living with severe shortages that the WW2 generation had to live through. Not to mention that nearly half the British population lost a family member to the fighting and 30% of the country was under constant bombardment.

Originally Posted by zilo

one word for you ...Thalidomide.

Here's one back. Polio. How you can compare a 'supposed fix' for a bit of nausea with a life saving vaccination beggars belief. The amount of global scrutiny any vaccine that becomes generally available will get will make anything that has come before pale into insignificance.

The anit-vax morons are fond of trotting out Thalidomide and the other pharmaceuticals that have had negative side effects along with the tiny percentage of people who have adverse reactions to the vaccinations but the reality is that we would still be losing tens of thousands to polio, smallpox, diphtheria etc. without the compulsory programs of the 50's and 60's.