From surveys, online comments and backed up by family and friends back home, it seems that these draconian measures are wildly popular. That’s why they exist. The strictest state premiers enjoy the strongest support. If you held a plebiscite today, I reckon 70%+ would vote for closed borders, mask mandates and rolling lockdowns FOREVER.

Maybe 90%.

I know some readers will not believe it. Believe it. I’ve been following events at home closely and it’s taken me months to wrap my own head around this.

As for resisting, it depends whether you want to be a martyr for a lost cause or effective. Rosa Parks had institutional backing: donors, lawyers, sympathetic politicians, courts, etc. The Weather Underground murderers have tenure now because they had high-level backing from the start.

To resist or protest without elite factions in your corner is ineffective. It might be cathartic but, with both elites and the population against you, you will lose. I suppose some saints and hotheads will go for it anyway.

As for me, my decision to run was made for me because I was overseas when this came down and now I’m effectively locked out. Would cost at least $10,000 to get back and then I’d risk being locked in. I’m searching for a new home and would give my left ball for an alternative citizenship.

I’m not about to sacrifice myself upon the alter of noble resistance for that mob of pathetic sheep who threw me under the bus but if anyone else is moved to, all the best. I’m much more interested in securing my own freedom than theirs because they don’t want it.

A hospital ED was shut because ONE person who tested positive for the Coof was treated there.

And you are REQUIRED to wear masks with instant fines. At the same time a Maori anticolonial narrative is corrupting science and medical education. People are dobbing in their neighbours. The amount of hatred is high, for fear always morphs to something else, generally anger or despair.

And our PM, that communist twit, thinks the implosion of the economy and worsening physical and mental health of the society makes things more equal, which is good.

The same moron pressured local hospitals to admit to ICU a person with the Coof from Fiji. Against medical advice. She’s saying we got this from Australia.

She definitely got her policies from that fascist Dan Andrews.