Earlier this year federal health secretaryĭeclared that vaccine distribution was “not a race,” which became a mantra picked up by the prime minister to justify an initially cautious rollout. Hiding behind the “health advice” of such officials has become the national sport of Australia’s politicians. Chant, on whose edicts the country hangs. governors) quickly learned to play Prime MinisterĬenter-right government like a fiddle, forcing the commonwealth to bail states out for the economic wreckage created every time they locked down their cities or shut their borders.Įlected officials have allowed their judgment to be replaced by that of the new priestly class of health mandarins like Dr. Labor state premiers (the equivalent of U.S. Politics, too, conspired to create this outcome. By mistaking their good luck for brilliance in being able to pull up the drawbridge to the world at the start of the pandemic, Australians quickly became trapped in an “elimination” mindset that is now officially referred to as Covid Zero. So how did Australia become a hermit kingdom? Geography plays a large part. Many iconic restaurants will likely never reopen. A restaurant-industry representative told me last week that many chefs and waiters are leaving for greener pastures. Billions will be spent by government or lost by businesses as a result. This is before discussing the economic fallout from the latest lockdowns. Residents of Sydney may leave their homes only if it is “essential,” and not stray more than six miles when they do. Adelaide and Melbourne are hoping to come out of lockdown in some form this week Sydney, the economic engine room of Australia, is likely to remain under restriction through at least August.Īustralians need permission from the federal government to leave the country-applications succeed about half the time-and Australia’s states throw up their borders against one another at the slightest hint of trouble. Shark attacks killed eight in 2020.Ī good 18 months into the pandemic, the nation is still trapped in April 2020. Cancer kills nearly 50,000 Australians a year. This in a nation that records, on average, about 460 deaths a day from all causes. The current outbreak of 2,000 or so cases total over the past month has been associated with eight deaths so far, almost all of them people over 70. In fact, all of Australia is recording around 150 coronavirus cases a day. Given this level of official hysteria, an outsider might imagine that Australia is a Covid charnel house. My local butcher was more than glad for the chance to tell me how things were “a bit slow,” but added that she “can’t complain.” Supermarket checkout staff remained as chatty as ever behind their masks after Dr.
The video was shared on Twitter by The Lincoln Project's official page on the same day, garnering over 1.7 million views, 49,000 likes and over 23,000 retweets in eight months.Happily, most of us who live in Sydney ignored the warning.
Many people in the comments attempted to find the identity of the man and dox him further. His hobbies include spreading COVID, starting fights, & making inappropriate gestures to minors," (shown below).
Later that day, posted a series of screenshots from the video, writing, "This anti-mask Trump supporter was last seen at a Walgreens in Scottsdale, AZ. Trump supporter in Arizona gets aggressive with a 16-year-old over a face mask /BPXMUCUxhR On the way out of the grocery store the man says "go vote for Biden," then grabs his crotch aggressively at the teens and leaves, noting that he voted for Trump. He says "fuck you where you breathe" to the teenager and discourages him from telling people what to do, calls him a "pimply little shit" and repeatedly uses the word "pal" to refer to him, notably saying "you're not that guy pal, trust me," to essentially try and tell the teen he isn't the type to fight back. In the video, a middle-aged man is shown arguing with a person behind the camera. On October 26th, 2020, Twitter user posted a video captioned, " Trump supporter in Arizona gets aggressive with a 16-year-old over a face mask," garnering over 3,900 likes and 1,700 retweets in eight months (shown below).