From WSJopinion: Australia is discovering what much of the world has already learned: There’s only so much you can do to stop a virus from spreading without resort to petty totalitarianism, writes pwafork
Main Street: When a billionaire becomes a dissident, the takeover of Hong Kong is complete. Image: Apple DailyAustralia’s coronavirus response was, until recently, the envy of the world. Like its economy, which had gone nearly 30 years without a recession, Australia seemed to have cracked the Covid code. Community transmission had been all but eliminated, deaths kept low—a little over 100—and life in the population centers of Sydney and Melbourne was getting back to normal.
No longer. Australia is discovering what much of the world has already learned: Like holding a beach ball underwater, you can keep your infection rate down only for so long before it pops up again. And there’s only so much you can do to stop a virus from spreading without resort to petty totalitarianism.
The details of how the Australian state of Victoria got caught in a second wave, wrecking its hopes for a quick recovery while enlisting the citizenry as an army of snitches, tell a tawdry tale of political incompetence. The trouble began in Melbourne, where far-left Labor Premier Daniel Andrews leads the state government. Mr. Andrews has genuflected before every woke cause from radical sex education in classrooms to the failed attempt to send Catholic Cardinal George Pell down as a pedophile.
Early in the pandemic, the center-right national government of Liberal Prime Minister Scott Morrison made the decision to quarantine returning international travelers in hotels for 14 days. While this was managed well in most of the country, the Andrews government put private security contractors in charge of the hotels in Victoria. Scandal erupted when the hotels became infection hot spots.
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