- “Matt Hancock told lawyers he should be immune from court action over Covid” – He said he should not be the target of judicial reviews over his department’s failure to safeguard care home residents simply because he was Secretary of State – and that it should be the whole Government instead, reports the Mirror.
- “Jacob Rees-Mogg: We were denied evidence we needed to make anti-lockdown case” – Ministers were not told of evidence from Chris Whitty that it would be safe to reduce quarantine period, the former Commons leader has said, according to the Telegraph.
- “Matt Hancock’s plan to block funding for disabled children if MP opposed lockdown” – Matt Hancock discussed a plan to block funding for a new centre for disabled children and adults as a way of pressuring a rebel Tory MP to back new lockdown restrictions, reports the Telegraph.
- “The secret spreadsheet that targeted MPs critical of lockdown” – With backbench Tories speaking out about harm caused by Covid measures, the Health Secretary and his team set out on a strongarm operation, reports the Telegraph.
- “The inconvenient questions the Covid inquiry must answer” – Baroness Hallett needs to go beyond the direct costs of the disease and quantify the unintended damage that Covid policy inflicted, writes Esther McVey in the Telegraph.
- “WHO Urges Countries to Reveal Intelligence on COVID-19 Origins After FBI Director’s Statements” – The World Health Organisation has asked governments with intelligence on the virus to come forward, after a growing number of U.S. officials signalled that it may have resulted from a Chinese lab leak, the Epoch Times reports.
- “The Lockdown Files’ message is clear: we must never again suppress democracy by giving power to power-hungry people.” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson with the original text of their Express article.
- “I protested masks at local school board” – It wasn’t exactly a Churchillian moment, says Bill Rice, Jr..
- “Matt Hancock cancelled after indiscreet WhatsApps ‘upset’ travel industry” – The Institute of Travel and Tourism has axed the former Health Secretary from speaking at its annual conference in Qatar as messages reveal he was highly critical of the sector, according to the Telegraph. Now obviously we’re against cancel culture. But it is Matt Hancock.
- “How the WHO was captured” – Private capital wields far too much influence, says Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
- “Critical Thinking is Our Only Weapon Against the Doomsayers” – We must train ourselves in scrutinising texts, seek out true information and apply rigorous reasoning, says Thorsteinn Siglaugsson.
- “The politics of fear is the enemy of democracy” – The elite’s doom-mongering over Covid was an insult to our intelligence and our rights, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Chris Whitty ‘warned ministers against enforcing hated sex ban during Covid pandemic’ because ‘people aren’t likely to listen’, Matt Hancock’s leaked WhatsApps reveal” – Under the original Covid lockdown imposed in the U.K. on March 23rd 2020, Boris Johnson told Brits to stay at home and avoid contact with people living in other households, but there was private disagreement about what this should mean for couples, reports the Mail.
- “The Real Threat of 15-Minute Cities” – These ultra-modern, tech-saturated monstrosities use hundreds of thousands of sensors to vacuum up copious amounts of personal data, writes John Mac Ghlionn for the Brownstone Institute.
- “The green elites really do want climate rationing” – A new paper has exposed the miserable reality of Net Zero, says Laurie Wastell in Spiked.
- “With the ‘expert’ Covid view blown up, green terror must be next” – In an uncompromising leading article the New York Post argues that “green fanatics” are just as much in the dark about the climate situation as Anthony Fauci et al. were about Covid, and “it’s time we stopped listening to them, for good”.
- “A Minnesota court can’t overturn science – but it can destroy women’s sport” – It’s not a ‘gender based assumption’ to say males are generally stronger than females – it’s fact, writes Julie Bindel in the Telegraph.
- “Great Britain has no place for blasphemy laws” – Religious tolerance should be promoted in multi-faith Britain, not theocratic intimidation, says Rakib Ehsan in the Telegraph.
- “NHS must reinstate ‘woman’ in cancer and pregnancy webpages, staff demand” – Health workers write to NHS bosses condemning the “discriminatory” move of shifting to gender-neutral language, saying it “insults women”, the Telegraph reports.
- “‘That Was a Lie!’: There Was Never a Scientific Consensus On Lockdowns, Masks, or the Vaccine” – Watch Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya say that “a cartel almost, of very powerful scientific bureaucrats took over the whole apparatus of science”.
'That Was a Lie!': There Was Never a Scientific Consensus On Lockdowns, Masks, or the Vaccine
— The Vigilant Fox
Dr. @DrJBhattacharya: "What happened was a relatively small group, a cartel almost, of very powerful scientific bureaucrats took over the whole apparatus of science — at least as far as… pic.twitter.com/UwRwg6P8Ej(@VigilantFox) March 5, 2023
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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.
No-vax is dangerous for the vaccinated!! Obviously he should take the protecting vaccine to fear the unvaxxed! Makes total sense again.
Those who preach the narrative
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.
A nice reasoned response, Neil, particularly as there is no ‘commie’ or ‘fascist’ scum in it!
Its an awful long time since I was in 6th Form. I’ve had another 50 years to learn how to think.
Bungle’s point seconded.
Hello, downvoter! I see you’re keeping yourself gainlessly employed.
This….
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.
The Australian legal system and its judges accepted the the exemption was valid. Djokovic was removed for his opinion about vaccines nothing else.
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.
Not “stupefying” but bog-standard politician. That’s one of the many reasons I could never be one.
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!
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.
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?
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?
Agreed – and there was an unnecessary snide dig at Federer, too. Perhaps Nadal would have been a more fitting target?
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.
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’
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.
He’s not anti vax, he’s pro choice. Disgusted with Australia over this. Enjoy the isolationism
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!
“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?
Haka became Mama.
Sad!
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”.
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.
A couple of ideas for mugs and t-shirts:
I’m Staying Safe
Keep Staying Safe.
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.
Mustn’t show those any more. Too risky – you don’t want to ‘trigger the anxiety’ of the emotionally-compromised young.
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.
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.
Nothing’s been allowed into Australia the last two years, including F1.
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.
I agree likewise the England Cricket Team. Everyone should boycott sport in Australia until they wake up.
“simple-minded anti-vaxx message”?????
Steve Waterson is Commercial Editor of the Australian and also a twat.
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.
The same people will probably win because Australians are apparently stupid and cowardly.
Naturally, I’m hoping you’re wrong.Wrong about enough of us, anyway.
Australia ended in March 2020
So did the UK
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.
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.
“… 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.
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.
An example of cognitive dissonance.
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
Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and beat you with their experience
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.)
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.
Can you refer to a source? I haven’t seen this.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/what-if-the-largest-experiment-on
Thanks!
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?
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.
And Princess Diana destroyed that myth and plan
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
Makes you wonder if the Plandemic was to get Clowns running the the major western economies in order to succeed
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.
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…
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.
Interesting question.
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.
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.
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.
But are they really at over 90% jab uptake or is it just propaganda.
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?
It use to be said that Australia was populated by the descendants of criminals, but it now appears they are descended from prison guards.
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.
Downvote this, anonymous downvoter.
Looks like he got four of his mates in, too.
If I asked for downvotes, and got downvotes, do these count as upvotes?
And the line is?
‘It use to be said that Australia was populated by the descendants of criminals, but it now appears they are descended from prison guards.’
Yesterdays tsunami knocked Australia half a bubble off plumb.
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
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.
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.
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.
I’d wager every single thing I own his dad died of ‘DNR’ syndrome.
Well you have confused me.
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
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.
Name and shame the bodyguards?
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.
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/
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.
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.
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.
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.
Excellent and very amusing commentary. Thank you.
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.
Australia is welcome to stay exactly where it is, on it’s own.
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.
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.
Great piece, apart from your jibes at Djokovic which were totally unwarranted and killed your points entirely.
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.
Clowns tend to be funny, whereas Morrison is sinister and evil.
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.