Lockdowns will continue in need over the next few months. They are unpopular, but most people are smart enough to grudgingly know they are still needed, whilst the majority of the population are unvaccinated.
But that will change when you get say 50% plus of the popn (or 70% of the adult popn) with their 2 jabs, especially coming into spring/summer when flu cases naturally drop, and people like to be outside more. As long as the vaccines have proven to be effective, the groundswell will become very anti lockdown. Over the next few months the rhetoric of 'learning to live with the virus' will gradually sink in.
Then it will become political suicide as a State Premier, Liberal or Labour, to put your state into any 2 week quarantine. You can blame the federal govt all you like, but the masses will want your head.
But that will change when you get say 50% plus of the popn (or 70% of the adult popn) with their 2 jabs, especially coming into spring/summer when flu cases naturally drop, and people like to be outside more. As long as the vaccines have proven to be effective, the groundswell will become very anti lockdown. Over the next few months the rhetoric of 'learning to live with the virus' will gradually sink in.
Then it will become political suicide as a State Premier, Liberal or Labour, to put your state into any 2 week quarantine. You can blame the federal govt all you like, but the masses will want your head.