The clock has struck thirteen in Victoria and no man, woman, or child is free. Writing this sentence, according to Assistant Police Commissioner Luke Cornelius, makes me a kook, an anti-vaxxer, an enemy of the people.  

Cornelius, apart from doing little to dispel the doughnut-munching stereotype of his usually agile brothers and sisters in blue, had this to say after arresting a 76-year-old man allegedly organising protests against Stage 4 lockdown. 

“Please don’t try and dress your behaviour up as exercise,” Cornelius has said. 

“We all know it’s not, so stop playing us and the wider community for fools. 

“The tin-foil hat-wearing brigade are alive and well out...