COVID bans 'aren't keeping people safe, they're destroying the joint'

 SkyNewsAustralia

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says Australia’s recession was caused by politicians and Australia should call them out, because their bans are not keeping people safe, but are “destroying the joint”. “On Tuesday we saw the price of our virus hysteria,” Mr Bolt said. “Huge unemployment, people getting poorer and record government debt. So much debt – getting on to a trillion dollars by 2024 – that I'd bet that no one my age will see it ever repaid.” Mr Bolt said the bans which caused Australia’s recession also seem to have caused increased suicides among boys and elderly men, and have caused many to miss cancer screenings, leading to the fear people will die from diseases which otherwise could have been picked up in time. “Now, you would think, now that we see the wreckage caused by this hysteria that every political leader's mind would now be focussed on getting us back to work,” he said. “And that can be done safely. “Instead, in two states today more evidence that some politicians just don't get it. They've either got tunnel vision or reckon there are votes in playing up the scare, whatever the cost.” Mr Bolt said the Queensland Premier has “dreamed up this rule” where she wouldn’t open the border to NSW unless it went 28 consecutive days without having a single new infection it could not trace within 48 hours to an earlier case. On Tuesday night, NSW found three so-called mystery cases, and so far has tracked down causes for just two. “So if it doesn't solve the last case, then bang – the border to Queensland will stay closed for another month, with all the cost to business, with all the grief to people wanting to travel on holidays to see family,” he said. Mr Bolt said insanity was catching as the Premier in Western Australia had taken the same attitude as Ms Palaszczuk. In Victoria, the premier “also came up with some made-up target for ending” the “worst lockdown” in the world, Mr Bolt said. He added it did not seem likely Victoria would meet the set target to progress to the next stage of its reopening plan on October 19. “I think, unless Victoria's mad government backs down, Melbourne will stay locked down for who knows how long,” he said. Mr Bolt exhorted Australians to call politicians out for causing the country’s recession. “Call them out on it. You might think they're keeping you safe with their bans. But they're not. They're destroying the joint, really hurting people, and it's got to stop,” he said.