Victorian Lockdown 4.0

 So we are into our 4th lockdown in Victorian. It has become something we can cope by now. I don't know about anyone else but for my family, not much is different, except that just when we are getting used to "going back" to work/school physically again, we are now all at home again.

Question is, how long is this one gonna last and why is it Victoria again? One can't help but watch how the Victorian government deal with this one. Hopefully some lessons have been learned from our previous experience and things will be better handled. 

But what is our state government doing this morning? Dishing out money ($250m) again and blaming the Federal government for not helping to dish out more money, on top of other things such as slow vaccine rollout. Instead of working on improving the vaccination telephone lines that were choked up and crashed, causing lots of people anguish and more stress, the Andrews government tried to deflect the attention by pointing blame at the Morrison government. Taking advantage of this crisis to score political points, is that clever or despicable?

The $250m package will come from Victorian taxpayers, fine, we have no choice. But VIC state government wants Federal funding, that means all Australians, to be compensating for their businesses as well, which to me is a double whammy for Victorians. And if Fed government helps Victoria during their state-wide lockdown, then when SA or Western Australia or any other states announces their lock down due to a couple of COVID cases in their state, won't they have to help in the same way as well. There will be no end. Where do you think the Federal Government's money comes from? Trees?

Some Victorians' businesses and livelihoods may be suffering as a result of this lockdown no doubt but think long term and do not buy in to the comments from the VIC state government. All handouts comes from tax payers, if you don't already realise. If you don't want to be paying more taxes for other states' incompetence or their self-imposed knee jerk lockdowns, we need to be careful what we are asking for now.