W moich pierwszych wątkach traktujących o pandemii wskazywałem na realne niebezpieczeństwo pojawienia się zamordystycznych tendencji ze strony rządów walczących z wirusem i nazywałem ów potencjalny - wówczas - fenomen "sanitarnym faszyzmem". Dzisiaj, niecałe dwa lata po wybuchu pandemii, mamy już państwo, które w tym jakże krótkim okresie czasu przeistoczyło się z pełnej demokracji w sanitarną, dystopijną dyktaturę. Tym państwem jest Australia. Co więcej - i to stanowi o szczególnej pikanterii tego przypadku - większość Australijczyków, jak na razie, akceptuje dyktatorskie poczynania władzy i bez zmrużenia oka podporządkowuje się im. Zważywszy na zaistniałą sytuację przypadek Australii można potraktować jako sui generis socjologiczny eksperyment, któremu z uwagą winien przypatrywać się cały świat, a szczególnie ten trochę bardziej cywilizowany. Pytanie brzmi, czy Australijczycy w końcu "eksplodują" i kiedy?
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"Riot police firing rubber bullets into lockdown protesters. Rescue dogs being shot to prevent volunteers travelling to collect them. Nighttime curfews and one hour of exercise per day. Five-kilometer travel limits. Soldiers patrolling suburbs to enforce lockdowns. Health bureaucrats advising the citizenry not to stop and talk to their neighbors while walking their dog.What the hell is happening Down Under? “Totalitarianism,” says Tucker Carlson. “Australia has lost its collective mind,” according to Ben Shapiro. “If we invade Australia we will be greeted as liberators,” argues Jack Posobiec. Has Covid-19 really turned one of the world’s oldest democracies into a dystopian health dictatorship? As my Polish grandmother used to say, things are rarely as good or as bad as they appear."

"The success in suppressing Covid comes with other price tags. The single-minded obsession that no one get sick and die from Covid is being paid for by a slowly unfolding mental-health crisis. Social isolation and dislocation are taking their toll in terms of rising suicide, depression, substance abuse, and domestic violence. Physical health suffers, too, as treatable conditions don’t get treated in the health system that now seems to have only one goal.
How long can this last? If it was up to the drunk-on-power politicians and bureaucrats who have found a winning electoral formula, health experts who have found relevance, and the deathly scared who have found a sense of safety (and, for some at least, the frisson of being a part of something big and important), the answer is “forever.” Which is why the federal government—belatedly trying to orchestrate a return to some normalcy once certain vaccination levels are reached—finds its efforts contradicted by state governments and health experts arguing that the vaccination target actually needs to be (the unreachable and unrealistic) 90 percent or 95 percent, that lockdowns should continue even with a highly vaccinated population, and that international borders should stay closed indefinitely. That this is not great marketing—get vaccinated, but you still won’t be able to do anything!—needs no genius to recognize. Sadly, little evidence has materialized of any major shift in public sentiment. The powers that be still find it easy to taint the opposition to their “zero Covid” policies as callous, anti-science, anti-vax, right-wing extremists."