Coronavirus - Australia
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@gt12 said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Cruel and unusual, with a whiff of fascism
Three reports. One utterly demented and cruel. One plain stupid. One deadly, sadly, serious. Each provides grounds for more people to lose faith in health bureaucrats and governments. Trust goes two ways. When public servants and governments don’t trust us, how can we trust them?
The cruel one comes from Queensland. On Monday the state’s chief public health officer, Jeannette Young, refused to grant an exemption to a couple to leave quarantine to see their newborn baby, born premature on June 1 after complications presented during their lockup. First-time parents Moe and Sarah Haider returned from Qatar on May 26 fully vaccinated. Both have tested negative to Covid-19. When Sarah delivered her baby by caesarean section, her husband was banned from being with her. Neither has seen their baby since it was whisked away.
Young’s full health advice to justify this callous decision should be released immediately. Does it even exist? If not, we won’t just lose trust in these unaccountable officials. We will look with horror at the hysterical health fascism unfolding across this country. As Moe told the media, “I’m told the vaccine means nothing”, but the Premier can travel to Tokyo for the Olympics because she’s vaccinated. “How on Earth does this make sense?”
Is this legit?
Holy fucking shit.
Yes, from the same "medical professional" who decided to let people in to the State because it was good for the economy. Like that's part of her expertise and purview.
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I'm lost for words. That's one of the craziest things I've read during this whole shite show of a pandemic.
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@gt12 I've seen reports of similar "safety" measures regarding babies, hospital flights and unaccompanying parents earlier in the pandemic regarding crossing state borders and regions. Might be msm stirring up as usual but I felt the same despair.
William Wall, a 14 year old autistic kid died in September in Victorian bushland when the state government limited the number of searchers for him due to fears the search party spreading covid. Locals, who are best equipped to find a local lad in local conditions were not allowed to search en masseSuccessfully searching for a lost kid is a numbers game
The boy died all alone a mere few kilometres from his home. The thought of that makes me shudder
Seriously, there's some sick shit going on in Australia
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@siam My god that is awful. I watch the news and read, but hadn't seen anything about it. That should have had some big coverage.
Now we have mass media coverage about cricketer who used some inappropriate words or terms a decade ago making headlines. Where the fuck do I live.
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@snowy said in Coronavirus - Australia:
That should have had some big coverage.
no, there is no coverage. there is next to no scrutiny on any fucking thing around any of it. Few questions are raised.
It's a heady mix of public apathy and fear. Basically i think a huge amount of it is the public thinking that "if we shut up, keep our heads down, don't say anything, we can go back to the pub. If we don't we'll end up in lockdown again".
And it has worked, state government elections have been landslides.
Scott Morrison being the bumbling dumb fluffybunny that he appears to be has waited too long and will probably get the blow back.
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@mariner4life Can see why you guys are getting pissed off over there.
Bad enough here when they lock AKL down and I get included, nowhere near AKL.
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@snowy said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life Can see why you guys are getting pissed off over there.
Bad enough here when they lock AKL down and I get included, nowhere near AKL.
the state government stuff is pure politics. And it fucked with a huge amount of people's lives unnecessarily. We abandoned the running of the country to a handful of unelected bureaucrats.
The federal government haven't been any better, and have given the states a person to point at.
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@snowy said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life Can see why you guys are getting pissed off over there.
Bad enough here when they lock AKL down and I get included, nowhere near AKL.
the state government stuff is pure politics. And it fucked with a huge amount of people's lives unnecessarily. We abandoned the running of the country to a handful of unelected bureaucrats.
The federal government haven't been any better, and have given the states a person to point at.
and I suspect that melbournian that drove through NSW to be positive in QLD will likely spark the next over reaction from states..watch this space
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@bayimports said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@snowy said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life Can see why you guys are getting pissed off over there.
Bad enough here when they lock AKL down and I get included, nowhere near AKL.
the state government stuff is pure politics. And it fucked with a huge amount of people's lives unnecessarily. We abandoned the running of the country to a handful of unelected bureaucrats.
The federal government haven't been any better, and have given the states a person to point at.
and I suspect that melbournian that drove through NSW to be positive in QLD will likely spark the next over reaction from states..watch this space
my heart fell when i read that and then saw Jeanette Young in front of a press conference.
Cairns will be in lockdown followed by a mandatory mask mandate by 5pm. Western Australia is priming to turn around flights.
Sydney will shrug, but Gladys Barelyjiggling will make snide comment.
Jacinda will get the RNZAF to shoot down planes from Brisbane. I'm not sure with what, but she'll try.
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@bayimports said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@snowy said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life Can see why you guys are getting pissed off over there.
Bad enough here when they lock AKL down and I get included, nowhere near AKL.
the state government stuff is pure politics. And it fucked with a huge amount of people's lives unnecessarily. We abandoned the running of the country to a handful of unelected bureaucrats.
The federal government haven't been any better, and have given the states a person to point at.
and I suspect that melbournian that drove through NSW to be positive in QLD will likely spark the next over reaction from states..watch this space
my heart fell when i read that and then saw Jeanette Young in front of a press conference.
Cairns will be in lockdown followed by a mandatory mask mandate by 5pm. Western Australia is priming to turn around flights.
Sydney will shrug, but Gladys Barelyjiggling will make snide comment.
Jacinda will get the RNZAF to shoot down planes from Brisbane. I'm not sure with what, but she'll try.
i laughed but then sighed because its true
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@bayimports said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@bayimports said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@snowy said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life Can see why you guys are getting pissed off over there.
Bad enough here when they lock AKL down and I get included, nowhere near AKL.
the state government stuff is pure politics. And it fucked with a huge amount of people's lives unnecessarily. We abandoned the running of the country to a handful of unelected bureaucrats.
The federal government haven't been any better, and have given the states a person to point at.
and I suspect that melbournian that drove through NSW to be positive in QLD will likely spark the next over reaction from states..watch this space
my heart fell when i read that and then saw Jeanette Young in front of a press conference.
Cairns will be in lockdown followed by a mandatory mask mandate by 5pm. Western Australia is priming to turn around flights.
Sydney will shrug, but Gladys Barelyjiggling will make snide comment.
Jacinda will get the RNZAF to shoot down planes from Brisbane. I'm not sure with what, but she'll try.
i laughed but then sighed because its true
i just used the tried and true template from the last 15 months.
sadly.
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incidentally, if i could get all "sovereign citizen" for a second
how long do the state governments have the power to fine us for moving around, and the ability to force us in to hotel quarantine at our own cost for the privilege of moving around inside our own country? Is this finite? Or is this just a thing they can do now?
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@mariner4life i think they have to keep voting for the powers to be extended
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@kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@mariner4life i think they have to keep voting for the powers to be extended
so, perpetuity then
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@mariner4life might depend on a number of politicians trying to endear themselves with the common man by voting against next time
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Booked in for the jab this morning - there's heaps available so at 2PM I'm driving over to one of the local jaboratories to see what's what.
Perfect day for it. Miserable, cold, and got no meetings at work. Plus I deserve a medically-induced break after sorting out a fuckup this morning in our cloud services.
The fucking idiot who renamed a heap of mission-critical configuration can have COVID sprayed all over their face as far as I'm concerned. All the variants.
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@voodoo That chart is BS. Be interesting what date National decided to choose to run it. Typical fucking politicians. Just screams for a counter add showing deaths per 100 for the same countries. Meaningless stats - If Israel had delivered 150 jabs per 100 people then they would have had to have delivered over 12 million doses (Popn 8.72 Mill). World in Data says they have fully vaccinated 5.14 Mill and partly vaccinated 314K.
NZ's lagging but not that far behind. It's all down to what happens in the next 1/4
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@dogmeat from memory we’re basically stuck till that batch of 1 million arrives from Pfizer in July. At which point our numbers should (should!) double very quickly. Interestingly I’ve just had a text to book my Covid vax, just have to wait the balance of two weeks from my flu jab on Monday…