“Now, it’s like that movie in ‘The Croods’ — people wanted to stay in the cave … and that young girl, she wanted to go out and live again and deal with the challenges of living in a different world,” Morrison told Australia’s Channel 9 during an interview on Tuesday.
“Covid is a new, different world, and we need to get out there and live in it. We can’t stay in the cave and we can get out of it safely,” he said.
As The Washington Post’s Sydney bureau chief Michael Miller reported, Morrison on Monday defended a plan to begin opening up the country once 70 percent of eligible Australians have been vaccinated, despite record cases in Sydney, and hinted that states that cling to lockdowns could face punishments.
“Our goal [is] to live with this virus — not to live in fear of it,” Morrison said. “We have to break this cycle” of states going in and out of lockdown, he said, adding, “This groundhog day has to end.”
The Croods — a popular family film that grossed about $587 million at the worldwide box office, according to IMDb — had a sequel out in 2020 and stars the voices of actors Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone and Ryan Reynolds.
Morrison’s comparison sparked a flurry of responses on social media, with some in Australia lamenting that they hadn’t seen the movie, while others commented on the declining rhetoric of statesmen.
However, a third wave of infections from the delta variant has plunged Sydney and Melbourne, its largest cities, and capital Canberra into a weeks-long lockdown.
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