Shame fatigue and unscientific COVID restrictions are backfiring – Business Insider Australia

• If the 1980s should have taught us anything, it’s that “Just Say No” doesn’t work. And yet, “cancel everything” COVID edicts are still being dropped on a weary public.
• Overbroad lockdowns are producing “shame fatigue,” where people who want to be responsible during the pandemic start to tune out authority figures whose hypocrisy and inconsistency are painfully transparent.
• It’s not too much to ask that government orders be rooted in science.
• This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed…

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