Melbourne has been in lock down for over 200 days. Sydney is not that far behind.
Massive amounts of people are unable to work, and a lot of us haven't seen our interstate family in almost 2 years.
A few months before Covid started, 180,000 km2 of Australia was burned to the ground, enshrouding our capital and major cities in smoke, making breathing outdoors almost impossible, causing a mass shortage of P2 masks. Many people died. Many more lost their houses.
What sort of additional hardships do you want to prescribe for Australians exactly?