We appear to have seven Australian governments that are paralysed, unable to decide whether they are really “flattening the curve”, which means spreading the same number of infections out over a longer period of time, or “obliterating the curve”, meaning eliminating the virus altogether. While they are still talking about “flattening the curve” they appear to want to eliminate new infections before they start relaxing restrictions, and that’s a confusing message, and a recipe for long-term disaster because it envisages a series of lockdowns.