Lot of these claims of what is allegedly happening are rather bold and a bit unbelievable so I'm wondering if anyone here can give any confirmation and clarification on any of it.
1. Extreme forced lockdown with no due process?
2. Children forcibly vaccinated?
3. Concetration of those who test positive?
Didn't watch much of it at all as he didn't seem to be making much sense.
1) There have been lockdowns and they continue at this very moment. Australia is somewhat unusual in that SARS-2 hasn't really taken hold (has not become endemic) anywhere in Australia to this point. Anyway, to this point, preventing this has been the main aim of the lockdowns when contact tracing alone has failed. But the Delta variant has made things much more difficult such that we are now seeing immediate lockdowns. The outbreak in Sydney is now very large (towards 1K cases per day) and so probably can't be turned around. But it is largely isolated even within Sydney so I guess the lockdown will continue probably for months given its intractablity.
I don't know why there would be claims of no due process.
2) One of the criticisms of the Federal government here is that the roll out of the vaccination program was and has been too slow. It was cautious given the above success in keeping SARS-2 (alpha) out and they commited to vaccines that have either failed to materialise (UQ) or had poor publicity re adverse outcomes (AZ). It means that vaccination rates are well behind the rest of the world. At this point there aren't sufficient supplies to vaccinate children, let alone do so forcibly and AZ is unsuited to children due to thombosis issues. Nor has this been approved by the TGA (our FDA).
3) We have much the same, usual and rather bizarre forced isolation practices as the US. So, no concentration camps that I'm aware of. Indeed, the Federal government has been criticised for not having enough quarantine facilities.
Much of the American coverage does seem to be rather sensational and so overblown. For instance, the army has been asked to assist, but they aren't armed, like the police, for instance, who are.
However, I have to say the local discussions here are very lame. There have been protests but we don't seem to have anything like the questioning of the whole rationale of the vaccination program (which is pretty nonsensical if one listens to anyone familar with the actual science). As I noted above, our practices have been much the same as in the US. There is the same obsession with vaccines as the single solution to all problems and the same attempts to thwart/suppress/smear therapeutic approaches to COVID (HCQ, Ivermectin). For that insight one is almost entirely dependent upon American sources. Thank you for that.
God bless America!
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