Why are Australians still locked in their homes?
We are a small nation with even smaller States who all struggle to manage a very expensive bureaucratic universal health system.
While other countries rapidly mobilized national resources to improvise a Covid response, hospital ships, tent hospitals, emergency respirator factories, Australians watched in horror as a "National Cabinet" of six State Premiers, with a sidelined Prime Minister, popped up on national TV.
The Premiers, all out of their depth, failed to mobilize a treatment response, failed to find any good scientific expertise, and failed to override their Health Bureaucrats.
One State health official was heard to quip "you don't just train an ICU nurse overnight".
The Premiers then gambled on vaccines.