You've got to remember in all this that information is evolving and experience has now shown that lockdowns don't work in most of the countries that are targetted by the advice (which are not western countries, WHO really are a backstop for poorer nations with far less expertise and funding than OECD countries).
There is no massive tax pool to draw upon, like say Australia with huge funding packages, there is a massive migrant worker problem associated with lockdowns in many countries (by migrant worker, that's people from one part of that country working temporarily in another part), and the lockdowns in many countries well exceeded even Victoria has seen. The restrictions on movement and lack of recognition of essential activities - like agriculture - was quite bad initially in many such countries.
The referred article is unsurprising that it comes from the Rupert Murdoch stable. They've been pushing the anti-lockdown message from the beginning.
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