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In Australia, the Clowns Are in Charge – And It’s No Laughing Matter

by Steve Waterson
16 January 2022 7:00 AM

There were cynics who doubted the clowns who run this country could maintain their high standards of idiocy into this third year of pandemonium, but here they come again, tripping over their giant shoes as they enter the ring. Buffoons of that pedigree were never going to let us down.

True to their vision, we’re trapped in a miasma of bumbling incompetence, leavened with spiteful, vindictive meddling in our private lives. Polka-dotted bowler hats off to them, I say.

What a wacky week these crazy kids have delivered us. But before we luxuriate in the comic masterpiece of the Australian Open and Government’s removal of its reigning champion, Novak Djokovic, late on Friday, we should pause to applaud the latest jewel in the crown of our leaders’ stupidity: the screamingly funny $1,000 fine for not filing your positive rapid antigen test to the NSW Government’s gnomes.

The early promise and backbone shown by the NSW Premier suggested he’d fluffed his lines, but normal nonsense programming was restored at the prompting of his Health Ministry halfwits and a couple of Sydney talkback windbags. Their barrage of uneducated blustering and bullying, echoed by the shrieking flock of Chicken Littles that nest in our print media, saw the Premier’s resolve evaporate like the morning mist.

Given his Government has no idea who among its subjects has the RAT kits (I bought a couple of packets a month ago – or did I?), nor how many they have, or whether they’ve been used, correctly or otherwise, or by whom, or what result they gave, it seems unlikely that any fines will be collected. So, an unenforceable law to deal with an undetectable offence with a mighty but undeliverable penalty. If there’s a more amusing way of inviting contempt for the rules and their creators, I look forward to it.

You can see the appeal, though: at a grand a pop they only need to catch 11 million recalcitrants and – bingo! – that’s paid for the 58 million PCR tests we’ve conducted so far.

Besides, self-reporting has marvellous potential. In some U.S. cities there have been calls to defund the police, but our jokers have gone one better and outsourced the role to the citizens. A simple command to report oneself on pain of punishment – why did no one think of that before?

“Hello, NSW police? I drove home on New Year’s Eve and used a breath-test machine to discover to my horror that I was marginally over the limit. Please suspend my licence for three months – oh, and there’s a cheque for $1,500 in the post.”

Meanwhile, infections continue to climb, hundreds of thousands a day, boosted by the eager self-testers who uploaded their results to the health services website. So after nearly two years of kicking it, here’s where the can has ended up.

We should rejoice that the Omigod! variant is less deadly than Delta Force, apparently by 20%, or 10%, or 48 times less virulent, or 97% weaker (I fear I’ve been reading too widely). I have no idea what these figures mean, or how they can possibly be calculated; and their vast range tells me nobody else does either. They’re no more trustworthy than the daily case numbers regurgitated by our media, whose very precision makes them suspect.

Does anyone with the tiniest shred of intelligence really believe we are tracking every infection? I know a dozen people who’ve had positive RAT results but have no intention of throwing themselves into the maw of a health bureaucracy that will order them into isolation. And if my experience is not unique, then there must be hundreds of thousands more live cases out there, many with mild or no symptoms, which means the latest instalment of Covid is even less deadly than we are told.

If so, we are now recording and overreacting to a disease no more dangerous than seasonal flu. The reborn urge to track contacts, to order isolation and quarantine, to mandate daily tests (impossible to source) in order to validate exemptions for critical services, is causing more chaos than at any time since the madness took possession of us.

Helpful messages pop up on phones after a visit to the pub, informing you that when you checked in, someone with Covid was there “around the same time”. Then you are advised to “monitor for symptoms”. Good Lord, now you mention it I do have extreme pain and fever, a sore throat and a blinding headache, plus I’ve lost my sense of smell. Thanks for the tip, NSW Health, I might never have noticed. What a pity you have no advice on how to treat it.

To those businesses that survived destructive and unnecessary lockdowns thanks to the fabulous largesse of our various JobKeeper programs, good luck getting through the pseudo (but every bit as harmful) lockdowns generated by the insane requirement for many healthy staff to stay at home – this time with no financial support.

In Victoria, the legal fun looks set to continue, featuring backflip after hilarious backflip. With their inept, confused and torturous mishandling of what looked, no matter what side you favour, to be a simple visa decision, the PM and his ministers have turned the modest success of his “Where the bloody hell are you?” campaign to attract overseas tourists into a triumphant “What the bloody hell are you doing here?” drive to dissuade them from coming.

News reports worldwide have focused on the battle to protect Australia from a Serbian tennis ace. I don’t know if we’re the laughing stock some critics say we are, but I doubt there are many potential visitors racing to their travel agents after viewing the fiasco we’ve created.

Lawyers say hard cases make bad laws; but bad laws also make hard cases. Some of us have clung from the start to the belief that an Australian passport holder should be allowed to enter Australia at any time, and that Australians should be allowed to move unchallenged around their nation. Many didn’t want our international borders to be closed at all, although the hysteria that discarded the world’s carefully prepared pandemic contingency plans put an end to that foolish dream.

So if those who have opposed the country’s brutal border closure now adopt the PM’s “rules are rules” platitude (as though the rules were dropped here from outer space, rather than born of his own unseemly and unending panic), we are valuing the internal coherence of a bad system over our desire to see a measured, reasonable response to an unvaccinated person seeking entry to a country where almost everyone is vaccinated.

Djokovic came here for our entertainment, and to enrich himself and his trophy cabinet, not to infect Australians with a disease he doesn’t have or to spread his simple-minded anti-vaxx message. The “Gotcha!” reaction to a couple of trivial form-filling errors and the embarrassing interview process he was subjected to show how thoroughly Covid paranoia has penetrated our institutions.

It’s not clear to me why anyone would fraudulently claim they hadn’t been to Spain in the fortnight before heading to Australia. I don’t believe such a visit is prohibited by our entry laws, which are designed to capture travel to more problematic places than the Costa del Sol.

Nor do I see why a multimillionaire globetrotting celebrity, in a sport famous for mollycoddling its stars like newborn babies, would be filling out his own online visa application, doubtless one of dozens his minders arrange for him each year.

Trouble is, the principles of fair play are so much more difficult to defend when the super-entitled “victim”, backed by a phalanx of clever lawyers, is such an absolute tosser, and not that lovely Roger Federer. Maybe we should have another yes/no question on the visa application: Are you a dickhead? But until we do, we should not have indulged the mob howling for the expulsion of the world’s No.1 tennis player from what may be the only globally significant sporting event we will host this year. Anyone who believed Djokovic was more of a threat to public health than any of the thousands who would pay to watch him play is an idiot. He doesn’t dive into Young & Jackson for a post-game beer during the tournament; and, more importantly, he doesn’t have any Covid to transmit.

I imagine you have to be profoundly obsessive and self-centred to excel in any individual sport, although Djokovic does seem to wear an extra layer of charmlessness. His gloating Instagram post that he had secured a medical exemption to enter this hermit kingdom stung anyone impacted by our travel restrictions (and I speak as one of them, forbidden to visit my dying father or attend his funeral).

Nevertheless, Djokovic’s obstinacy may have done some good. He deserves no credit for it, as his motives were primarily mercenary, but perhaps his immigration farce will persuade a few more people to question the benefit of continuing these pointless prohibitions, though I won’t be holding my breath.

In a proper big top, the clowns appear between performers of genuine talent: tightrope walkers, lion tamers, trapeze artists, jugglers; but our cavalcade of stupidity looks set to go on and on, with no relief and no skills on display. If we’ve learned one thing from our politicians during the pandemic, it’s that a circus composed of clowns and nothing else is no laughing matter.

Steve Waterson is Commercial Editor of the Australian.

Tags: AustraliaAustralian OpenNovak DjokovicVaccine Passports

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nickbowes
nickbowes
3 years ago

So No-Vax is to be deported after all, a laughing stock country filled with dirty little globalist commie scum. Hopefully he will be welcomed to a freer country this June and get his heroes welcome.

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Vxi7
Vxi7
3 years ago
Reply to  nickbowes

No-vax is dangerous for the vaccinated!! Obviously he should take the protecting vaccine to fear the unvaxxed! Makes total sense again.

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Nessimmersion
Nessimmersion
3 years ago
Reply to  nickbowes

Those who preach the narrative

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
3 years ago

As much as we moan about Boris and the Government response here, it beggars belief what is happening in Australia. Not only did they call the approach wrong, but long after it has become perfectly obvious they got it wrong, they are still doubling down instead of rowing back. This absolute stubbornness in the face of empirical evidence to change approach is stupefying.

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Bungle
Bungle
3 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

A nice reasoned response, Neil, particularly as there is no ‘commie’ or ‘fascist’ scum in it!

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
3 years ago
Reply to  Bungle

Its an awful long time since I was in 6th Form. I’ve had another 50 years to learn how to think.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  Bungle

Bungle’s point seconded.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

Hello, downvoter! I see you’re keeping yourself gainlessly employed.

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cornubian
cornubian
3 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

This….

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cornubian
cornubian
3 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Djokovic knows the bioweapon is both dangerous and unnecessary, but rather than be honest and say that, chose to play along with the oppressors and claim an exemption. Because his claim was clearly fraudulent, the oppressors couldnt agree to go along with it. So we had two sets of liars/deceivers engaged in a legal battle to see which liar/deceiver would win. There was only going to be one winner in that battle.

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SomersetHoops
SomersetHoops
3 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

The Australian legal system and its judges accepted the the exemption was valid. Djokovic was removed for his opinion about vaccines nothing else.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

The Djokovic deportation should help Boris Johnson.

It’s something that probably horrifies most people in Britain and will conjure feeling of – better the devil you know.

I mean, you just know that if someone like Gove was in the job, he’d be ramping up restrictions. He probably wets himself thinking about the kind of power the bullies in Australia have grabbed for themselves.

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SimCS
SimCS
3 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Not “stupefying” but bog-standard politician. That’s one of the many reasons I could never be one.

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Bolloxed Britannia
Bolloxed Britannia
3 years ago

To anybody that think’s that the UK is a “more free” country because we haven’t taken the PSYCHOTIC Australian Convid route, let me disabuse you of your erroneous mind set. Tis estimated (coz nobody really knows) that the totally unvaxxed segment of UK society could be as high as 20 million? Add too that the one jab and no more crowd, add too that the two jab and fuck your booster Boris crowd, and you’ve got a sum of dissenters greater than the entire population of Australia! If those core critical thought Spartans had caved… we’d all be royally screwed by now folk’s…wake up!

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lutherkehrt@gmail.com
lutherkehrt@gmail.com
3 years ago
Reply to  Bolloxed Britannia

Boris recently spouted 9million as the unjabbed figure, but if you add in part jabbed, and under 12s, then we’re comfortably up to your figure.

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A Y M
A Y M
3 years ago

You detracted from your essay by attacking Djokovic’s character with baseless interpretations of his motivation. Look at the various leaders you have in Australia. You voted these charmless dickheads into power.
What does that say?

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artfelix
artfelix
3 years ago
Reply to  A Y M

Indeed. I’m not entirely sure what his problem is with Djokovic, who always struck me as an decent chap and the antithesis of the entitled whinging Aussie sportsman. Maybe that’s the problem?

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milesahead
milesahead
3 years ago
Reply to  artfelix

Agreed – and there was an unnecessary snide dig at Federer, too. Perhaps Nadal would have been a more fitting target?

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JamesDrebin
JamesDrebin
3 years ago

Simple-minded anti-vaxx message

Yeah big brain critique there. But with similar generosity of spirit, I acknowledge your right to hold your simple-minded, anti-choice, anti-clinical-reality, pro-blind-obedience stance. What a brainy ally to truth I am.

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watersider
watersider
3 years ago
Reply to  JamesDrebin

Yes James,
But you must understand the writer must throw some crumbs to the dictators by insultingDjokivic, otherwise his job would be on the line.
It reminds me of those Americans who pretend to defend their legitimate President, and then say ‘ of course we support him however his coarseness offends us’

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artfelix
artfelix
3 years ago
Reply to  watersider

The vax is rather like the King in a feudal society where if you want it keep your head you can say the country is in ruins, you can say idiotic decisions have been made, but you have to blame the advisors or the King’s wife or someone else, it can never be the king’s fault, even though everyone really knows it is.

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jwills
jwills
3 years ago

He’s not anti vax, he’s pro choice. Disgusted with Australia over this. Enjoy the isolationism

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago
Reply to  jwills

Isolationism? I bet they will very much enjoy the millions of tourists from China – who will feel most at home there – and continue buying up their silly penal colony!

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David.in.Italy
David.in.Italy
3 years ago

🦘 court

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Dame Lynet
Dame Lynet
3 years ago

“I don’t know if we’re the laughing stock some critics say we are…”

Yes, yes you are and your image of supposed superior toughness vs us poms will never recover.

As for the Kiwis and their scary haka wardance, who will take that seriously now?

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D J
D J
3 years ago
Reply to  Dame Lynet

Haka became Mama.
Sad!

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artfelix
artfelix
3 years ago
Reply to  Dame Lynet

Yep – I’m afraid the whole g’day mate bonhomie and Crocodile Dundee/Anzak tough guy persona so carefully cultivated for decades has been utterly obliterated, permanently and forever.

But then you could say the same about the Keep Calm and Carry On plucky Brit stereotype too – I look forward to mugs saying “Needlessly Panic and Throw Away Your Liberties”.

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Dame Lynet
Dame Lynet
3 years ago
Reply to  artfelix

Good point, but I don’t think we invested ourselves with that persona anywhere near the same extent as Aussies did with their toughness.

It was mostly forgotten about until it was recently revived as a fashion thing.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  artfelix

A couple of ideas for mugs and t-shirts:

I’m Staying Safe

Keep Staying Safe.

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CovidiotAntiMasker
CovidiotAntiMasker
3 years ago
Reply to  artfelix

Yes, what indeed has happened to the stiff upper lip , keep calm and carry on attitude to life portrayed endlessly in the second world war movies I was brought up on ,when for example a school master would be depicted continuing with the lesson despite the Luftwaffe dropping bombs overhead.

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lorrinet
lorrinet
3 years ago
Reply to  CovidiotAntiMasker

Mustn’t show those any more. Too risky – you don’t want to ‘trigger the anxiety’ of the emotionally-compromised young.

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Osobowy
Osobowy
3 years ago

Since I started watching Formula 1 a decade ago, I haven’t missed even one qualification or race, on TV and occasionally in person.

F1 is scheduled to return to Australia this year. I know it doesn’t help much, but after watching to whole sorry debacle unfold, I’m seriously considering making other plans on the weekend of the Australian Grand Prix as my silent protest.

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ministryoftruth
ministryoftruth
3 years ago
Reply to  Osobowy

Did all sport stop in Oz last year? Or was this just cos they wanted to make an example of someone? I’m boycotting anything coming from there. Been doing it with loads of companies.

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Osobowy
Osobowy
3 years ago
Reply to  ministryoftruth

Nothing’s been allowed into Australia the last two years, including F1.

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maverick999
maverick999
3 years ago

Djokovic should never have gone to Australia. He should have boycotted the event (along with all the other players) in solidarity with those losing their jobs due to mandatory vaccination.

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Epi
Epi
3 years ago
Reply to  maverick999

I agree likewise the England Cricket Team. Everyone should boycott sport in Australia until they wake up.

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GlassHalfFull
GlassHalfFull
3 years ago

“simple-minded anti-vaxx message”?????

Steve Waterson is Commercial Editor of the Australian and also a twat.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago

Scotty and the Canberra Clown Circus can congratulate themselves on a week of own goals. They can sermonise all they want but they come out of this looking even more ridiculous than ever.
And the federal election is now just a few months away.

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artfelix
artfelix
3 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

The same people will probably win because Australians are apparently stupid and cowardly.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  artfelix

Naturally, I’m hoping you’re wrong.Wrong about enough of us, anyway.

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Cecil B
Cecil B
3 years ago

Australia ended in March 2020

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CovidiotAntiMasker
CovidiotAntiMasker
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

So did the UK

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brachiopod
brachiopod
3 years ago

It is being reported that Djokovic lost his appeal against the revoking of his visa.
Another MSM lie.
How our bought and paid for media misreport everything.
Djokovic was refused judicial review of the decision to revoke his visa – something completely different, and something that the Australian clown show had to stop at all costs.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  brachiopod

From the Voice For Victoria Twitter page:
Just to be unequivocally clear: it’s confirmed that Novak didn’t break any rules & there were no determined issue with his paperwork or exemption, which was valid. Hawke states this clearly in the court docs. He was deported for the govt not liking his public opinions. That’s it.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
3 years ago

“… or to spread his simple-minded anti-vaxx message”, but then…
“Anyone who believed Djokovic was more of a threat to public health than any of the thousands who would pay to watch him play is an idiot.” and “and, more importantly, he doesn’t have any Covid to transmit.”

So who’s actually ‘simple-minded’ here? This is a perfect example of someone who understands how ridiculous this whole Covid debacle is, but still can’t bring themselves to side with the main group of people pointing out how ridiculous the whole Covid debacle is. This is the main problem we’re dealing with now – an irrational stubborness of people who refuse to admit they’ve been sold a dud.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

It’s worse than irrational stubbornness.

It’s the misguided anger of those who realise they’ve been taken for a ride and are struggling with the cognitive dissonance. Nobody likes to feel like they’re idiots.

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CovidiotAntiMasker
CovidiotAntiMasker
3 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

An example of cognitive dissonance.

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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
3 years ago

That pretty much sums it up. And that’s not even touching on the dire situation in Victoria. Topher Field has created a stunning documentary Battleground Melbourne to be released soon. Preview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-p_nE9spqA

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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago

Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and beat you with their experience

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago

Poor author. He’s fallen completely for the trick his government has played on him and the rest of the Australian population.

They’ve taken all the anger bottled up from two years of abuse of the population by the state authorities and channelled it towards Djokovic. Like an idiot, he’s also fallen for the “we aren’t going to let your sacrifice be in vain” bait and switch.

Oy, Waterson, you dope – it’s ONLY your government you need to be pissed at. Djokovic hasn’t done anything to you.

(P.S. What’s your job, Waterson? And when you get paid for doing your job, do you consider yourself a mercenary? Twat.)

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
3 years ago

The “simple minded” are those who have fallen for the “This is a safe vaccine” line. Have a look at the 40% increase in deaths in young people since May.

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Osobowy
Osobowy
3 years ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

Can you refer to a source? I haven’t seen this.

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CovidiotAntiMasker
CovidiotAntiMasker
3 years ago
Reply to  Osobowy

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/what-if-the-largest-experiment-on

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Osobowy
Osobowy
3 years ago
Reply to  CovidiotAntiMasker

Thanks!

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
3 years ago

Overall this should, in any sane world, be the end of the stupidity in Australia because any thinking Australian will look at this and ask “Why is someone who hasn’t got Covid a threat when we’ve all been jabbed to the eyeballs?” and cease to comply. Much as Johnsons parties ended the Covid Is A Threat lockdown party in the UK. Does anyone seriously think people in the UK will follow a further edict on lockdowns, social distancing, bubbles and parties?

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loopDloop
loopDloop
3 years ago

Australian people are, by and large, simple folk with not very much in the way of intelligence. Even the smart ones are stupid. I remember in the 1980s, when the medical establishment of the day decided that this new syndrome called AIDS was without any doubt, certainly, bet your life on it, about to spread like wildfire through the heterosexual population. 40 years later the results are in. Never happened. It was obvious at the time that this prediction was wildly wrong to anyone reading widely. Nexus magazine published an excellent special issue at the time on everything that was wrong with AIDS orthodoxy, so there was no excuse not to be aware of the truth, unless you took your truth undigested from the mouths of the government and medical establishment. The government went ahead and made an advertisement, the most expensive ever made in Australia to scare the living crap out of everyone, and it worked. It was made by a plonker with the name of Siimon Reynolds, and no, that was not a typo, he doubled the i in his first name to signal to world just how much of a self-obsessed douchebag he was. Anyway, the ad featured the grim reaper going ten-pin bowling, and sending the balls down to knock over Australians who were the pins. The dumbest thing you ever saw. One of the Aussies getting knocked over was an 11 year old girl, crying her eyes out as the ball knocked her sideways. I remember thinking at the time, the only way she could catch AIDS would be if she was anally raped by a male homosexual who already had the disease. So that was a magic moment in the history of Australian public health policy. Nothing’s changed.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

And Princess Diana destroyed that myth and plan

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Cecil B
Cecil B
3 years ago

Off subject

Words are important

Unfortunately many of us are using the words handed down to us by the dictatorship

‘Nudge’ Unit is an example. It is not a Nudge Unit. Neither is it a Behavioural Insights Team

What is described as the NU or the BIT is in reality a Psychological Warfare Team

Members of the dictatorship’s PWT have been involved in a criminal conspiracy that has led to the deaths of countless thousands

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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago

Makes you wonder if the Plandemic was to get Clowns running the the major western economies in order to succeed

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BJs Brain is Missing
BJs Brain is Missing
3 years ago

I’m doing my bit by boycotting anything Australian. In my opinion all sporting links and competition with Australia should cease, and until such time that the ‘authorities’ come to their senses. The vax discrimination is going off the scale and is reminiscent of South African apartheid.

Novak Djokovic should just walk and leave the Australasian asylum to self-destruct.

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
3 years ago
Reply to  BJs Brain is Missing

Novak can console himself with the fact that when this madness is all over, much of his competition has disabled itself by getting a vaccine which is detrimental to health, meaning he will still be able to clock up more grandslam titles well into his late 30s…

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
3 years ago

It would be interesting to point Mattias Desmet at the example of Australia and ask him if he thinks it was more likely than other countries to fall for the mass formation given its relative geographical isolation or other Australia specific factors.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Interesting question.

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
3 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

When I spent a month in Australia about 20 years ago I was struck by how parochial the Australian media was (“The Australian” in particular). Important events outside Oz barely made the news there. If little has changed since then it might make Australians less likely to be able to view events with any kind of sensible perspective.

I also do remember a couple of run ins with petty bureaucrats, a particularly obstructive customs guy at the airport in Perth, and some stupid dress code at a not very special bar in Sydney. So perhaps the authoritarianism has always been lurking just under the surface.

Having said that, outside of the cities I experienced great kindness and gruff Aussie hospitality, so it’s a real shame what’s happened to the place.

Ruined by the metropolitan elite I suppose, just like Britain.

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JohnK
JohnK
3 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Your first comment reminded me of how it looked when I made my first trip to the USA, back in 1994. Only a few years since the WWW was invented, so really just the “local” media available. In effect, no such place in the wider world, in those days, it appeared to me.

All the more so, when I visited Québec, but that’s another story. Useful to be able to speak French, of course, to get the best service in certain places.

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loopDloop
loopDloop
3 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

This is an interesting point. Australians have very little time for those who think differently, or step out of line, or take a contrarian view. It’s considered ‘unAustralian’, which is an actual word, the existence of which proves my very point. Barry Humphries used to go to the football in Melbourne in 1959 and stand in the crowd, with his back to the game, knitting. Brilliant satire on the entire Australian mindset. Like the other very few geniuses produced by the wide brown land, Barry had to leave Oz to have his particular brand of unique intelligence recognised and celebrated. So yes, Australians even have a name for it, the tall poppy syndrome, meaning if you stick your head up, it will be cut off. It’s considered very poor form to think for yourself down under. Which explains why they are at 95% vaccine uptake and frothing at the mouth like lunatic lemmings at Djokovic daring to be different.

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CovidiotAntiMasker
CovidiotAntiMasker
3 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

But are they really at over 90% jab uptake or is it just propaganda.

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
3 years ago

Not sure if it’s just me but the Today’s Update page seems to be bust at the moment, with the website returning a critical error.

Maybe the “swamp” exceeded the toxicity threshold?

Last edited 3 years ago by realarthurdent
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Smelly Melly
Smelly Melly
3 years ago

It use to be said that Australia was populated by the descendants of criminals, but it now appears they are descended from prison guards.

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loopDloop
loopDloop
3 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

A line from Clive James, again, one of the very few geniuses produced by Australia who had to leave to make it. Ok, maybe he was borderline genius with occasional flashes of brilliance interspersed with some more ordinary moments, unlike Barry who never made a dud move in his life.

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loopDloop
loopDloop
3 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

Downvote this, anonymous downvoter.

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

Looks like he got four of his mates in, too.

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loopDloop
loopDloop
3 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

If I asked for downvotes, and got downvotes, do these count as upvotes?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

And the line is?

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loopDloop
loopDloop
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

‘It use to be said that Australia was populated by the descendants of criminals, but it now appears they are descended from prison guards.’

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barmpot
barmpot
3 years ago

Yesterdays tsunami knocked Australia half a bubble off plumb.

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Cecil B
Cecil B
3 years ago

I do not think that the deportation of Djokovic is necessarily a bad thing

The biggest fear dictators have is that the population stops believing, at that point the dictators know they are lampost fodder

The deportation of Mr D was a desperate act, but the dictators were left with no choice

If they had let Mr D stay it would be tantamount to admitting the past last two years have been a huge fraud

However the dictators have told so many lies that they have tied themselves in knots

Even using the perverse logic of the dictatorship how can the unjabbed Mr D be a threat to a jabbed up country? The ‘vaccinated’ are fully protected aren’t they?

The lies the dictatorship tell now contradict the lies they told previously, and the lies they tell tomorrow will contradict the lies they tell today

The game goes on until it doesn’t

Last edited 3 years ago by Cecil B
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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

I agree. The Australiangovernment is going to be overtaken by events in the US and UK shortly in any case, as that is where the narrative collapse is happening first.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Masky Mark has just upped mask restrictions again. We have five Omicron cases loose in the community! Save us, StateDaddy!
As if we have no other news sources other than their flunkeys in the MSM.

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PaulMac66
PaulMac66
3 years ago

Oliver Holt has written an emotional piece in The Mail today about Djokovic and his vide being revoked by Australian officials. 

‘I realise this will sound overly emotional to some people, and I apologise for that, but it is hard to be measured about something when your dad’s death certificate has Covid-19 typed in the box that tells you what killed him

He goes on to say 

‘So even though my father was coming to the end of his life before the pandemic hit, I suppose I have a heightened interest in this debate around Djokovic.’

So as sorry I am his father died Holt has already admitted he was ending the end of his life before the pandemic struck. And I’d wager every single thing I own his dad died of another age related illness and not covid. Surely after two years of this nonsense and Holt having access to the same information as the rest of us. He must realise that the way covid deaths have been recorded is a huge scam. His colleague at The Mail Bel Mooney wrote a piece about how her father died but was recorded as a covid death even though he never tested positive. Holt’s piece is terribly uninformed and his emotions got the better of him. 

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Dodderydude
Dodderydude
3 years ago
Reply to  PaulMac66

I’d wager every single thing I own his dad died of another age related illness and not covid

I’d wager every single thing I own his dad died of ‘DNR’ syndrome.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  PaulMac66

Well you have confused me.

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robwallser
robwallser
3 years ago

I sincerely hope as a kind of retribution for wanton stupidity that the rest of world stop seeing this dried out piece of planet as a haven for sun ,surf and freedom and a place a certain kind of youth would want to head for/I hope any sane European will never want to go to Australia again .Only then will their standing in global terms be damaged as it deserves.Only when the back packers and gap year students avoid Australia like the plague will they hopefully be sorry

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago

I just finished the chore of skimming the daily hell headlines, and it has occurred to me the perfect solution to mitigate against political overreach. Do not give anyone in public service special police protection.

In the name of peace & equality, NO ONE should receive special privilege, protection or powers, I bet they’d be a lot more careful about what they say & did, and a lot less controversial & divisive, if they couldn’t hide behind body guards!

A win-win for everyone except the occasional politician who wasn’t diplomatic enough.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

Name and shame the bodyguards?

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ministryoftruth
ministryoftruth
3 years ago

This was originally posted by germ_nation14 on Twitter. Amazing thread and yes he was booted off shortly afterwards.

History of Pandemic Nonsense (1919) by Dean Anderson

In 1919 the media and her controllers launched a psychological assault on the Australian population pertaining to the imminent appearance of a deadly disease that was headed for our shores, known initially as the pneumonic influenza epidemic.

The public became erratic with the media feeding the fear and the states acted not much better with all borders closed and non-essential travel ground to a halt.

The Spanish flu as it came to be known as a “new and killer disease” that was previously unheard of and could behave in a variety of strange ways. Unfortunately, it took hold in Victoria but was initially contained.

Fear grasped the nation as the public demanded action. The government of course was happy to comply and sought the advice from a specialist to provide the “road-map” required to deal with this new concern. Dr. Lanza, a rockerfeller rep was flown to Australia to head up the fight.

There were a number of things that had to be done, according to Dr. Lanza.

1. Compulsory face masks – everyone had to wear one. No service, no mask. In fact, some people even died fighting for their right not to wear what would later be discovered a useless piece of fabric.

2. Everything had to be disinfected. Strange men were seen walking around cities, dressed up in their face masks spraying surfaces to rid it of the dreaded germ.

3. Social distancing was key. 6 foot of distance from other people became an edict. Some people, however, didn’t take these rules too seriously and the media ran various stories about selfish beachgoers who refused to socially distance.

4. Isolation was critical for all individuals suspected of having the disease. Track and trace was also used with individuals suspected of “contamination” to be hunted down and removed for “everyone’s safety”. Yes, the tyranny was real but the virus? not so much.

The government employed the services of scientists to help create the treatment for this terrible disease and within 3 months – YES 3 months they had a cure.

An edict was passed from high that everyone must be inoculated for this dreaded disease. (It’s about this time that the disease spread to NSW)

Everyone got the jab. You couldn’t come into the country without one. You couldn’t work in government without one. You had to comply. But this caused problems. What should we do with those people who are getting sick from the inoculation PM?

About this time influenza had “mutated”. It was no displaying all sorts of unusual behaviours. Was it the bubonic plague, was it carried by insects? No one could be sure which was all the more reason everyone should be inoculated.

And inoculated they were. All the way to the indigenous communities (we didn’t want to run any risks).

Unfortunately that inoculation was actually a live bacteria. (Sorry about that guys) and in spite of the fact that the pneumonic influenza strain was never specifically identified, the total number of deaths in Australia exceeded 55,000 and the make-shift hospitals were in demand

The 1919 pandemic lasted almost 5 years. In that time, the economy was ruined, the middle class destroyed and the city centres all but devastated.

There was however some good news. Premiers announced that they would be converting factories to manufacture masks. (This was good for both the economy and peoples health).

When individuals were finally allowed outside it had to be done in the open air – because the virus didn’t travel outdoors.

This insanity, this stupidity went on for almost 7 years. 7 years of hell for the Victorian population. 7 years is also the number of years a slave is held captive before been released.

The 1919 pandemic was perhaps one of the most tyrannical hoaxes ever thrust upon the good people of Australia. Well, it was, until exactly 100 years later.

There is only one solution to end this madness.
It’s up to you!

Originally tweeted by Dean Anderson (@germ_nation14) on September 22, 2020.

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ministryoftruth
ministryoftruth
3 years ago
Reply to  ministryoftruth

It would interesting to see some receipts on this. There are photos attached to this article in the original tweets but the person who rescued the thread didn’t seem to copy these.

https://dcfpress.com/biden-100-days-of-masks-federal-mandated-for-interstate-commerce-fauci-stays-on/

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

I think Dungford must have camped by the billabong in his time. Because in Gulag Wales, you are fined for misreporting the results of a self-administered lft.

The magistrates’ courts are no doubt working overtime to inflict condign punishment on these desperate criminals, cunningly tracked down by the Cymraic Gestapo.

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Lister of Smeg
Lister of Smeg
3 years ago

A more apt desciption of those in charge in Australia are the jailors. Aussie commentator Helen Dale has mentioned this many times – the Aussie state often looks very competent in ‘normal’ dealings, but under the surface, they are VERY authoritarian and have often been shown up as covering up (corruption) this, especially as reagrds their often brutal/harsh policing.

Their ‘normal’ immigration policy (points system) may be good, but there are LOTS of other things that have been going on, way before COVID, that would be akin to that in many dicttaorships or corrupt governments, e.g. Chicago’s, for example.

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PhantomOfLiberty
PhantomOfLiberty
3 years ago

Distressing to see the Mail whipping up hatred and scorn against Djokovic – the nastiness of the tennis world at large – and the complete indifference of politicians.

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago

Nicely sarcasmed article. Shame it was spoiled by calling Djok an ‘anti-vaxxer’. So far as I know, he shares my own view, which is that those who want jabs should get them, but my choice is my own.
I suppose the Aussie authorities had little to lose, since they already looked like a bunch of bungling incompetents.
No chance of me losing any money betting on the other players doing anything about this discriminatory nonsense. Nadal in particular should be ashamed of himself.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
3 years ago

Excellent and very amusing commentary. Thank you.

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babsiep
babsiep
3 years ago

I look forward to the Inquiry into how the most freedom loving, relaxed, OK mate Australia became the most neurotic, bed wetting, authoritarian society ( well almost- just short of North Korea and China) in the world.

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bowlsman
bowlsman
3 years ago

Australia is welcome to stay exactly where it is, on it’s own.

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another armstrong
another armstrong
3 years ago

Djokovic was a threat in the event that if he won it might suggest that there really isn’t much wrong with being unjabbed. The similarities between the actions of the Ozzie Government and the 1936 Olympics in are telling. In the unlikely event he won, it could have become a Jesse Owens moment, and the narrative cannot risk that.
All is not lost however, despite the current implication that the non jabbed are plague bearers and the reason to mandate being “yes, but they can harm or kill others”.
70 or so years ago it was commonly believed that people could catch something from immigrants, gays or the disabled.
35 years ago it was accepted that a gay people spread a whole new lethal disease and simply being close to them put you at risk.
21 years ago we knew that we would die from eating burgers.
19 years ago Japan masked up as SARS Cov-1 was about to decimate the world.
The list goes on.
Discrimination against sections of the population has a habit of being challenged and found to be unjust. As with ethnicity, disability, sexual preferences or gender in due course remaining arguments for vaccine discrimination will crumble and be seen to be the hoax that they are.
In the mean time, it is our duty to challenge the lockdowns, mandates and acceptance of “the science” for everyone’s’ good.
We sceptics are at an advantage over those who suffered unjust treatment in the past. From the beginning of this farce we have suffered disbelief, confusion, isolation and demonisation. Yet despite that we have kept challenging the official line and our numbers have grown. Thus far we are 2 years in to this madness and are organising against the current discriminations we face.
Much progress has been made. Vaccine passports, lockdowns, mandates and the risk to our children has been at very least postponed. Our forebears were not so lucky, their treatment took far longer to be recognised.

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SomersetHoops
SomersetHoops
3 years ago

Fantastic piece I hope the Australians read it and are ashamed of their government. Only one thing I would add is that there is enough data available to make it clear that although not an absolute cause of rejection of the disease a prior infection gives far better resistance to it than any number of vaccines. Antibody testing is far more relevant than any other testing for Covid.

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Simon MacPhisto
Simon MacPhisto
3 years ago

Great piece, apart from your jibes at Djokovic which were totally unwarranted and killed your points entirely.

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago

Isn’t it disingenuous and dangerous to paint all these people as ”clowns”? Most surely they know EXACTLY what they are doing, and what the consequences will be. To suggest they are all ignorant incompetents is naive.

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Newman20
Newman20
3 years ago

Clowns tend to be funny, whereas Morrison is sinister and evil.

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lutherkehrt@gmail.com
lutherkehrt@gmail.com
3 years ago

I’ve had a cold for the last few days. It has been a reminder that a cold can be pretty unpleasant. The world seems to have forgotten that before 2020 people got a bit unwell without screaming ‘death, death’ everywhere.

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