Through rolling lockdowns, Australians are keeping calm and carrying on – even as we lose hope in our leaders | Peter Lewis
At this point in the crisis, the public remains remarkably resilient, but keeping the community together through the months ahead requires galvanising a sense of purpose
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As the Delta variant of Covid multiplies and lockdowns extend with no foreseeable end, there is a hopelessness in the eyes of Australia’s leaders as they deliver their daily briefings, beseeching the public to stay the course as the numbers rise relentlessly.
Every day they step up to the plate to deliver their inherently contradictory talking points: we need you to vaccinate but we need more vaccines; we need you to stay at home but we need to keep building sites open; we need you to hang in till we get there even if we can’t really say where “there” is any more.
Read the original article at The Guardian