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Australia’s COVID rules are a warning to rest of the world

The 18th-century English philosopher Jeremy Bentham came up with the idea of the panopticon, a prison designed to allow all the prisoners to be ­observed by one guard.

What even Bentham couldn t conceive of, despite his creative musings about schemes of perpetual surveillance, was a society like contemporary Australia.

Once an honorable member of the Free World, Australia has lurched into a bizarre and disturbing netherworld of bureaucratic oppression in the name of public health. Australia s lockdown mania has been so all-consuming that one assumes much of it would make Anthony Fauci blanch.

via nypost.com

They, or at least their rulers, do indeed seem to have lost their minds.