An Australian health worker has said fear is the motivating driver behind the Australian state governments COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccine mandates. Australia’s COVID lockdowns are among the harshest in the world, with Melburnians enduring 282 days of restrictions, including one period comprising 234 consecutive days of oppressive city-wide lockdown. Other cities have fared little better, with Sydney coming out of a 107-day lockdown last month, and the hard border in Western Australia has kept the entire state in an effective quarantine. So how has Australia, a flourishing liberal democracy, become a hermit kingdom? “We only have one metric defining success,” an Australian government health official administering lockdowns and contact tracing told The Epoch Times in an interview. The Epoch Times has agreed to provide the health worker with the pseudonym Sharon due to new health regulations that prevent and punish health workers from speaking out. “The only thing that is reported …