Three months ago Scott Morrison was looking forward to the country living with coronavirus and treating it 'like a bad flu'. But now 12 million Australians are locked in their homes as state premiers remain determined to use draconian restrictions to eliminate all cases from the community. Over the past five days, leaders in New South Wales, Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory have imposed crippling lockdowns with 204 cases nationwide while South Australia and the ACT mandated masks without any Covid-19 infections. The situation is a far cry from the vision Mr Morrison outlined in a press conference on February 5 when he suggested lockdowns may not be needed in three months' time.