On Tuesday last week, New South Wales joined the growing list of governments to quietly drop (or reimburse) Covid fines.
The fines, based upon health directions during peak Covid panic, were under question for their legitimacy right from the start. Not only did many of them seem wildly disproportionate to the supposed ‘moral crimes’ being committed, the vast majority defied both science and common decency.
Fining a business for letting an unvaccinated person in the front doors? Fining a citizen for walking more than 5km from their home – or spending more than an hour outside? Hunting down families who had a...
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