Covid-19 Australia Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham slams lockdown as insane

A conservative American news anchor has mocked Australia’s ‘insane’ Covid-19 lockdown restrictions and questioned why millions of Sydneysiders are forced to stay at home over a ‘0.004 case to population ratio’. 

Fox News presenter Laura Ingraham ridiculed the drastic stay-at-home orders that have been enforced across the New South Wales capital for two months.

‘It’s been seven weeks of lockdown in Sydney, Australia and they’re still keeping the vice grip on the population,’ the TV host said during a news segment on Thursday. 

Ms Ingraham delivered her attack on the same day Sydney recorded 345 new Covid cases, up from 344 a day earlier.

The news anchor held back her laughter as she poked fun at the ‘whopping’ rise in cases and mocked the state government’s reaction to keeping the city locked down.  

Fox News presenter Laura Ingraham ridiculed the drastic stay-at-home orders that have been enforced across the New South Wales capital for two months

Ingraham delivered her attack on the same day Sydney recorded 345 new cases, up from 344 a day earlier

‘The population of New South Wales: 8.2million,’ Ingraham said.

‘Meaning a case-to-population ratio of .004 per cent. They locked down for that.’ 

She then turned her attention to Canberra calling the city ‘insane’ after the Australian capital announced it would enforce a seven-day lockdown.

The decision came after the city recorded its first Covid-19 case in a year. 

‘The capital city has a population of 400,000. They have just entered a snap lockdown over one case. A single case,’ Ms Ingraham said before breaking into laughter.

Ingraham invited George Christensen, a Liberal-National MP for Dawson on the north Queensland coast, onto her show to discuss Australia’s lockdown. 

‘We are suffering from what is pandemic policy insanity in this country,’ the divisive MP said.

‘The city of Canberra, which I’m currently in â€" one single case and the entire 400,000-plus population moved into lockdown. 

‘This is happening across every inch of this country. Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, over in Perth. … We are locking down because someone sneezes, quite frankly. And worse than that, we have state borders that are shutting as well.

‘I fear that there is too much fear about this virus.’ 

Ms Ingraham delivered her attack on the same day Sydney recorded 345 new cases, up from 344 a day earlier

The news anchor held back her laughter as she poked fun at the ‘whopping’ rise in cases and mocked the state government’s reaction to keeping the city locked down

Nine cases have been recorded since Canberra began its first day of lockdown on Friday. 

Footage of the news segment was uploaded to Twitter where social media users were quick to defend the restrictions in Australia.

‘The reason they have minimal cases is they react strongly when they get some,’ one person wrote.

‘The thing about contagious disease is it’s way easier to contain before it’s widespread.’

Another person added: ‘Ingraham laughs that a town went into lockdown for a “single case”. How do people still not understand that the one person probably spread it to others by now who don’t know it?’

‘It’s called being asymptomatic. Where’s the line we should go into lockdown at then?’

The U.S. is currently seeing an average of about 129,000 new infections a day â€" a 700 per cent increase from the beginning of July.

Fears have been raised that the number could jump in the next couple weeks to 200,000 â€" a level not seen since among the pandemic’s worst days in January and February.

Australia, on the other hand, has recorded only 39,096 cases since the pandemic began in early 2020.

Only 958 people have died, compared to 637, 561 Americans. 

 Australia, on the other hand, has recorded only 39,096 cases since the pandemic began in early 2020

Source: Daily Mail

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