Please Watch Celeste Barber Brilliantly Sum Up Australia’s Lockdown Frustrations In 60 Seconds

Comedian Celeste Barber has beautifully articulated for her international followers exactly why so many Australians are back in lockdown — and exactly why it all went so horribly wrong.

“We did it easy in the beginning,” Barber says, in a video uploaded to social media yesterday. “We kind of did the hard part easy and now we’re doing the easy part hard. We locked down international borders… and we were all smug about it. But now because it’s all about vaccines — vaccines! — um, our government didn’t order us enough vaccines. What a time!

“And now we get yelled at by said Government — remember when Australia was on fire a couple of years ago? And that guy who was the leader fucked off to Hawaii? Same guy! Same guy that didn’t order enough vaccines. But he’s blaming us for not getting vaccinated and therefore that’s why we’ve got to lockdown. So it’s a real time over here at the moment!”

Watch her full video below.

Quick recap for our international friends. #sameguy pic.twitter.com/IwZ56YiJ84

— Celeste barber (@celestebarber_) August 15, 2021

Back in November, the Australian Government and Celeste Barber’s “Same Guy” touted the acquisition of two COVID-19 vaccines totalling more than 134 million doses.

“By securing multiple COVID-19 vaccines we are giving Australians the best shot at early access to a vaccine, should trials prove successful,” the Prime Minister said in the press release. (Early access! What a nice idea.)

“We aren’t putting all our eggs in one basket and we will continue to pursue further vaccines should our medical experts recommend them… our Strategy puts Australia at the front of the queue, if our medical experts give the vaccines the green light.”

Though, as we all know, access has not-at-all been easy.

To be fair, the Government had originally pitched its confidence on the University of Queensland’s potential COVID-19  vaccine when the world’s scientific community was racing to develop one last year. The UQ vaccine was unfortunately discontinued after it was found to return false-positive HIV results.

In December, it secured another 20 million Astra Zeneca doses, but of course, then we had all that back-and-forth between ATAGI and the Australian Government that really rattled people’s confidence for a second there.

In mid-July this year, The Guardian reported that AstraZeneca‘s local production dropped from 1 million doses a week in May, to as little as 232,800 in June. And now, nine months on from that first November announcement, we have surprise shipments of 1 million Pfizer doses coming in overnight from [checks notes] Poland.

Couldn’t make this stuff up.