Funny man Mel Brooks coined the greatest horror movie tagline of all time —‘Be afraid. Be very afraid’, which is why it’s perfect for the pantomime our political masters are putting on to frighten us into doing as we are told. Our heroine New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian took centre stage this week to tell us ‘this was the scariest time since the pandemic started’ as she announced that residents of all of Sydney and its surrounds would be locked in their rooms for a fortnight to protect us from Deadly Delta, the latest Covid variant of concern, the...