So a middle aged couple I know left Melbourne about a week ago for a holiday with two other couples. Six in total - ALL vaccinated.
Yesterday, three hours outside Darwin, their plane was turned back so that they could get immediately tested.
The hospital, however, advised that tests were fully booked and that they couldn't get theirs until MONDAY.
At the same time, their hotel indicated that they wouldn't be able to enter the premises until they received a negative test, effectively rendering them homeless.
Eventually the hotel let them back in on the proviso that they remain imprisoned in their rooms for the duration of the lockdown.
All of this despite the fact that all six of these people are VACCINATED.
So to everyone who says that we will avoid lockdowns if we 'get the jab' - I'll believe it when I see it.
By all means, get the vaccine to protect yourself from the virus. But it won't protect you from the 'public health' dictatorship that has governed our lives for 15+ months.
First we were told that it was "two weeks to flatten the curve". It wasn't.
Then they told us that Melbourne's 111-day nightmare lockdown last year would mean we'd avoid more lockdowns in the future. We didn't.
Now they're telling us that 'the jab' will set us free. It won't.
History shows us that once the state gets its hands on powers as invasive and monstrous as these, it doesn't relinquish them lightly. And if they're not locking us down over this virus, they'll be doing it over something else.
This will only end when we, the people, end it.
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Alright Mr Bandt, I'll see your teenager suffering from 'climate anxiety' (leaving aside, of course, the fact that you and your ilk have stoked the hysterical, apocalyptic garbage that is largely responsible for such anxiety) and raise you...
The pensioner who runs the risk of getting hypothermia in her own home, because when she thinks about Australian electricity prices - among the highest in the world thanks to policies the green movement has inflicted on us - it all gets too much.
The young couple who may never own their own home, because when they look at Australia's criminally expensive housing - thanks in part to restrictive land release policies championed by the green movement - it all gets too much.
Good God, I had a chuckle reading this - A real unhinged, paranoid, Murdoch derangement syndrome-infused, tinfoil territory rant. Then I got to the byline - This bloke is founder of the Australian Press Council and former editor of @theage!
@theage Anyway, most of his grievances are the standard lefty fare: 'Attacks' on the wonderful beacon of truth that is the ABC, the 'threats to democracy' arising from what is clearly opinion programming, and the 'takeover' of Fairfax by the right-wing (yeah, really) Nine Entertainment.
@theage But the fascinating thing is the mental gymnastics this Ranald bloke engages in in relation to the press freedom debate.
On the one hand, he complains about the 'increasing limitations imposed on reporting' under the guise of national security, which is fair enough.
Ah I see - It's not that public institutions are out of step with the community, it's that people are too stupid to realise that a bloke on AM radio is manipulating them into being 'afraid, cynical and distrusting' of the warm embrace of the state.