I will at least give you this: you seem willing to admit that, even if these lockdowns, and abolishing all in-person contact forever, DO work (temporarily), the cost is too damn high…

Not just that, but the way I see it, unless the whole world does it - which they haven't - all the heavy-lockdown states like Australia might really have accomplished is delaying the pandemic in their territory to a later date.

Even if they manage to virtually eliminate the virus in their country, whilst the virus is endemic overseas, they're in the situation where the second they open their borders again, they'll have to deal with the virus again.

Something like 71% of the UK population has covid antibodies in them now, either through vaccination or some degree of low-level infection. I don't know what that's like in Australia, but according to https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2020/seroprevalence-sars-cov-2-specific-antibodies-sydney-australia-following-first, in november last year, it was just 1%.

If the vaccine antibodies prove useless against a variant with the same fatality rate as delta, Australia's lockdowns will have succeeded only in delaying the inevitable, at great cost.

I think even you can admit that would NEVER be worth it, even to “save grandma” or however this shit continues to be “justified”…

I never, ever thought grandma was, statistically, worth saving. She'll be dead in 10 years anyway.