Much has been written on the damage of playground closures on young children during lockdowns. To add insult to injury, a Victoria health official has admitted that playgrounds in the state weren’t closed because children were spreading Covid – for which there was (and still is) no evidence – but to stop parents from being able to meet. The Mail Australia has the story.
Victorian children who have spent months living in fear of becoming infected at their local playground have finally been told there was no real evidence they were going to catch Covid playing on the swings.
In a stunning admission sure to enrage Melbourne families, Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton admitted on Wednesday the parks were banned for the last month to get at parents.
It is not the first time Professor Sutton has taped-up Victorian playgrounds because of their supposed threat to children.
Last year he closed them for months during Victoria’s second deadly wave, which killed more than 800 after leaking out of his own bungled hotel quarantine scheme.
On Wednesday, the Professor told long suffering Melbourne parents the actual reason he closed playgrounds in the first place was because of them.
“My advice on playgrounds originally was because we saw that people were using it as a loophole to have de facto meetings across households, neighbourhoods, families,” he said.
“In allowing playgrounds to open again, absolutely with the wellbeing and considerations of kids in mind, but we’re going to have QR codes as a mandated requirement.”
Melbourne parents had pleaded with Premier Daniel Andrews to introduce such a scheme back on August 16th, when he announced for the second time the only avenue of enjoyment many kids had would be banned.
Their calls had fallen on deaf ears at the time as Professor Sutton claimed he was acting on evidence that playgrounds were a serious transmission risk to children who played at them.
“We are investigating a potential transmission in a playground,” he claimed.
“It is not definitive and maybe we will not be able to make it definitive but it looks like there has been transmission in a playground.”
He backed-up the cruel plan with news the Delta variant of Covid had been spread between children walking home from school.
The next day, playgrounds across Melbourne were taped off under threat of serious fines if children attempted to use them. …
On Wednesday, Professor Sutton said he would allow just one parent or guardian to attend playgrounds with their kids.
He warned those parents not to even contemplate removing their masks while there.
“You will not be removing your mask to eat or drink because that’s when transmission occurs, It’s been said across Australia this virus moves with people. If we don’t have those human interactions, we can’t infect others'”
When pressed again for any scrap of evidence to support transmission of the virus at playgrounds, Professor Sutton could provide none.
“We have suspicions about transmission maybe occuring at playgrounds, but you don’t have to jump to specific instances to know how transmissions have occured [sic] indoors and outdoors between adults, between kids round the world,” he said.
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Did Toby believe a single word he said about replacing Braverman or that Cameron had anything useful to offer? Really?!
If Cleverley is the best Toby can put forward for the next leader things must be worse than I tought. To follow his analogy, however, the destruction will surely be half way between Nagosaki and Hiroshima 1946. Southampton 1945 looked better than the Tories will the morning after the GE.
Haven’t listened to this yet, but if Toby says a word in defence of Sunak I’ll thcweam and thcweam and thcweam until I’m thick.
How is the return of Cameron “bizarre”? It’s entirely in keeping with the direction of travel in every possible way.
Agreed. They’re simply getting all their political ducks in a line. If we view the landscape that the elites are playing on as a battleground, which it is, then they are preparing for a huge offensive.
I have decoded the Cameron thing. Rishi will be gone soon and Cameron will be PM. Interesting idea eh? There is much more to all this, and only Nadine Dorres has written anything about it. “The Plot:” her new book, is brilliant.
Finally got round to listing to the whole podcast. Toby is still remaining adamant that anyone raising any kind of eyebrow about the ease at which Hamas found itself in Israel as “distasteful”. I’ll ask the question again: Toby, do you find questions around the complicity of the US in 9/11 “distasteful”? What about the possibility that Bush and Blair knew full well that there were no WMD in Iraq before invading? “Distasteful”? What about the possibility that the US deliberately provoked Russia into conflict? That must also be “distasteful”, right? Are you saying that anyone who questions a States complicity in an act that causes civilian deaths are “distasteful”? You must be. Or are you just cherry picking and arbitrarily choosing what people can ask questions about and what they can’t?
Please respond Toby, as my respect for you is waning by the week. I’m sure I’m not alone.
Oh, and you guys had better change the name of the podcast (and this website actually). Either that or Toby needs to reacquaint himself with the definition of ‘sceptic’.
Not too long ago Natanyahu turned all children in his nation into Pfizer guinea pigs and locked up everyone who refused. I think it’s save to say that he doesn’t care for human life. It’s why I wouldn’t dismiss the idea of him allowing the recent terror attack to happen. Yes, it’s outrageous, but so is Netanyahu’s track record.