The Advertiser’s Caleb Bond says there is “no genuine reason” to argue that because there might be more COVID cases as a result of the Delta variant, it will “lead to more deaths”. “But they (politicians) are deadest on this elimination strategy, they will not be told otherwise,” he told Sky News. “The only way they can continue doing these lockdowns is to tell people that if they go within five miles of the Delta strain, they’re all going to drop dead.”