CV and mad panic behaviour

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I fear our politicians are demonstrating just how indifferent they can be to the plight of everyday people.

Scomo in particular seems to be using a popularist viewpoint to call for changes to the COVID ISO rules, while in the background case numbers and deaths are now starting to rise for the first time in many weeks. Some domestic regions are even re-establishing COVID wards, which is a tad alarming for those of us watching on.

Scomo has basically made a very public bet using everybody's welfare, that things won't get bad by the time election day comes around, which can only be 4 to 6 weeks away! A vote for Scomo is a vote for freedom, except it looks like it won't be, he is betting that a new COVID wave doesn't hit before we vote!

Fortunately, the number of ICU cases is low as a percentage of total cases, but the case spike is alarming and the total is quite quite big in some regions. From what I can tell Omicron is about 1/3rd as acute as other variants, but that is offset by increased virulence and seemingly reduce resistance in over 65s.